Accessing the type of an object
Get or set the type of an object.
Note that type and type<- are defined as S4 generic
functions and what type means exactly (and what type()
returns) depends on the objects for which type and/or type<-
methods are defined.
type(x) type(x) <- value
x |
Any object for which the |
value |
The type to set on |
type(x) returns the type of x, typically (but not necessarily)
as a single string (i.e. as a character vector of length 1).
showMethods for displaying a summary of the
methods defined for a given generic function.
selectMethod for getting the definition of
a specific method.
type,ANY-method in the DelayedArray
package for the default type method.
type,PairwiseAlignments-method in the
Biostrings package for an example of a specific
type method (defined for PairwiseAlignments
objects).
BiocGenerics for a summary of all the generics defined in the BiocGenerics package.
type
showMethods("type")
`type<-`
showMethods("type<-")
library(DelayedArray)
showMethods("type")
selectMethod("type", "ANY") # the default "type" method
library(Biostrings)
showMethods("type")
## The type() method for PairwiseAlignments objects:
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