DesignContrast-class: Study design and contrast information

In bedapub/ribiosExpression: Expression Analysis with RibiosExpression

Study design and contrast information

Description

The DesignContrast class represents key information in a designed experiment

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'DesignContrast'
show(object)

Arguments

object

An object of DesignContrast.

Functions

• show(DesignContrast): The show method

Slots

design

A numeric matrix. The number of rows equals the sample size. The columns corresponds to the variables of design

contrasts

A numeric matrix. The number of rows equals the number of columns in the design matrix. The columns corresponds to the comparisons one wishes to make.

groups

A factor vector, giving sample groups. The length equals the number of samples.

dispLevels

A character vector, used for displaying sample groups. The length equals the number of levels of the groups factor.

contrastAnnotation

A data.frame, used to annotate the contrasts.

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls of the function DesignContrast. However, the users should not directly call this function. Instead, parseDesignContrast should be called.

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