Coerce to a data frame
Generic function to coerce to a data frame, if possible.
NOTE: This man page is for the as.data.frame
S4 generic function defined in the BiocGenerics package.
See ?base::as.data.frame for the default method
(defined in the base package).
Bioconductor packages can define specific methods for objects
not supported by the default method.
as.data.frame(x, row.names=NULL, optional=FALSE, ...)
x |
The object to coerce. |
row.names, optional, ... |
See |
An ordinary data frame.
See ?base::as.data.frame for the value returned
by the default method.
Specific methods defined in Bioconductor packages should behave as consistently as possible with the default method.
base::as.data.frame for the default
as.data.frame method.
toTable for an alternative to
as.data.frame.
showMethods for displaying a summary of the
methods defined for a given generic function.
selectMethod for getting the definition of
a specific method.
as.data.frame,DataFrame-method in the
S4Vectors package, and
as.data.frame,IntegerRanges-method in the
IRanges package, for examples of specific as.data.frame
methods (defined for DataFrame and
IntegerRanges objects, respectively).
BiocGenerics for a summary of all the generics defined in the BiocGenerics package.
as.data.frame # note the dispatch on the 'x' arg only
showMethods("as.data.frame")
selectMethod("as.data.frame", "ANY") # the default methodPlease choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.