AffyCompatible (version 1.32.0)

zzz-DTTCompatibility-class:

(Auto-generated) classes and methods for navigating DTT sample attributes.

Description

These classes and methods facilitate navigation of the Affymetrix DTT sample attribute files. DTT files are generated by the Affymetrix GCOS application. Specifically, the classes are R representations of the Affymetrix classes defined in MAGE-ML.dtd. The 'show' methods for these classs indicate how objects are to be accessed; details are in the `Retrieving MAGE and ARR sample attributes' vignette.

Objects from the Class

Objects are created internally, by parsing XML retrieved from ARR, and are not created directly by the user.

Slots

Objects have a variety of slots. To discover slot names and content type, see the slotNames portion of the example, below.

Extends

Class "DTTCompatibility", directly. Class "AffyCompatible", by class "DTTCompatibility", distance 2.

Methods

'Accessor' methods are defined on auto-generated classes to access slot content. Accessors are apparent from displaying the object; each line of the display is of the form accessor: content. To retrieve the content of an instance object, invoke accessor(object). Some objects contains several instances of another object. These 'typed associations' are represented by the .TypedAssociation class, and are navigated or subset as one would a standard R vector, e.g., using [, [[. A useful paradigm for displaying all instances is illustrated in the vignette.

See Also

Vignette `Retrieving MAGE and ARR sample attributes'.

Examples

## defined and auto-generated classes
names(slot(getClass("DTTCompatibility",
                    where=getNamespace("AffyCompatible")),
           "subclasses"))