x
is a Bimap object. show(x)
:
Display minimal information about Bimap object x
.
summary(x)
:
Display a little bit more information about Bimap object x
.
- 2 sets of objects: the left objects and the right objects. All the objects have a name and this name is unique in each set (i.e. in the left set and in the right set). The names of the left (resp. right) objects are called the left (resp. right) keys or the Lkeys (resp. the Rkeys).
- Any number of links (edges) between the left and right objects. Note that the links can be tagged. In our model, for a given bimap, either none or all the links are tagged.In other words, a bimap is a bipartite graph. Here are some examples:
1. bimap B1: 4 left objects (Lkeys): "a", "b", "c", "d" 3 objects on the right (Rkeys): "A", "B", "C" Links (edges): "a" <--> "A" "a" <--> "B" "b" <--> "A" "d" <--> "C" Note that: - There can be any number of links starting from or ending at a given object. - The links in this example are untagged.
2. bimap B2: 4 left objects (Lkeys): "a", "b", "c", "d" 3 objects on the right (Rkeys): "A", "B", "C" Tagged links (edges): "a" <-"x"-> "A" "a" <-"y"-> "B" "b" <-"x"-> "A" "d" <-"x"-> "C" "d" <-"y"-> "C" Note that there are 2 links between objects "d" and "C": 1 with tag "x" and 1 with tag "y".
left right a A a B b A d CIf in addition the right objects have 1 multivalued attribute, for example, a numeric vector:
A <-- c(1.2, 0.9) B <-- character(0) C <-- -1:1then the flat representation of B1 becomes:
left right Rattrib1 a A 1.2 a A 0.9 a B NA b A 1.2 b A 0.9 d C -1 d C 0 d C 1Note that now the number of rows is greater than the number of links!
flatten(x) converts AnnDbBimap object x into FlatBimap object y with no loss of informationNote that a FlatBimap object can't be converted into an AnnDbBimap object (well, in theory maybe it could be, but for now the data bases we use to store the data of the AnnDbBimap objects are treated as read-only). This conversion from AnnDbBimap to FlatBimap is performed by the "flatten" generic function (with methods for AnnDbBimap objects only).
for any AnnDbBimap object x, f(x) is expected to be indentical to f(flatten(x))Of course, this implies that the f method for AnnDbBimap objects return the same type of object than the f method for FlatBimap objects. In this sense, the "revmap" and "subset" Bimap methods are particular because they are expected to return an object of the same class as their argument x, so f(x) can't be identical to f(flatten(x)). For these methods, Property0 says:
for any AnnDbBimap object x, flatten(f(x)) is expected to be identical to f(flatten(x))Note to the AnnotationDbi maintainers/developpers: the
checkProperty0
function (AnnDbPkg-checker.R file) checks that Property0 is satisfied on all
the AnnDbBimap objects defined in a given package (FIXME: checkProperty0 is
currently broken). library(hgu95av2.db)
ls(2)
hgu95av2GO # calls the "show" method
summary(hgu95av2GO)
hgu95av2GO2PROBE # calls the "show" method
summary(hgu95av2GO2PROBE)
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