Extracts an in-memory AffyBatch object from the CEL set. Note that any modifications done to the extract object will not be reflected in the original CEL set.
# S3 method for AffymetrixCelSet
extractAffyBatch(this, ..., verbose=FALSE)Returns an AffyBatch-class object.
Argument passed to ReadAffy()
(read.affybatch).
See Verbose.
Henrik Bengtsson
Since the affy package is making use of special CDF environment packages, this method will warn if the needed package is missing and explain that affy will later try to download and install it automatically.
Internally read.affybatch is used to read the data.
For more information see AffymetrixCelSet.