BiocGenerics (version 0.18.0)

annotation: Accessing annotation information

Description

Get or set the annotation information contained in an object.

Usage

annotation(object, ...)
annotation(object, ...) <- value

Arguments

object

An object containing annotation information.

...

Additional arguments, for use in specific methods.

value

The annotation information to set on object.

See Also

• showMethods for displaying a summary of the methods defined for a given generic function.

• selectMethod for getting the definition of a specific method.

• annotation,eSet-method in the Biobase package for an example of a specific annotation method (defined for eSet objects).

• BiocGenerics for a summary of all the generics defined in the BiocGenerics package.

Examples

annotation
showMethods("annotation")

library(Biobase)
showMethods("annotation")
selectMethod("annotation", "eSet")