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Annotated class
Description
The virtual class Annotated
is used to standardize the
storage of metadata with a subclass.
Details
The Annotated
class supports the storage of global metadata in a
subclass. This is done through the metadata
slot that stores a list
object.
Accessors
In the code snippet below, x
is an Annotated object.
metadata(x)
,metadata(x) <- value
:Get or set the list holding arbitrary R objects as annotations. May be, and often is, empty.
Author(s)
P. Aboyoun
See Also
The Vector class, which extends Annotated directly.
Examples
showClass("Annotated") # shows (some of) the known subclasses
## If the IRanges package was not already loaded, this will show
## more subclasses:
library(IRanges)
showClass("Annotated")
[Package S4Vectors version 0.40.2 Index]