SeqDataFrames-class: Class "SeqDataFrames"

Description

An object of type "SeqDataFrames" is a list of data frames, all of which with the same numbers and names of columns (ideally with the same data-types for the columns), but with possibly varying number of rows; with correponding index operators it behaves like a three-dimensional array with dimensions sample size x observation dimension x runs.

Arguments

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls of the form SeqDataFrames(...), where the ... are a list of dataframes with according column structure.

Slots

data:: a list of data frames

Methods

[: signature(x = "SeqDataFrames"): returns (slices of) the data
[<-: signature(x = "SeqDataFrames"): modifies (slices of) the data
print: signature(x = "SeqDataFrames", obs0 = NULL, dims0 = NULL, runs0 = NULL, short = FALSE, ...): slices can be printed and, if argument short== TRUE only a bounded number of dimensions is shown.
show: signature(object = "SeqDataFrames"): a call to print(x)
names: signature(x = "SeqDataFrames"): returns the names of the runs
runnames: signature(x = "SeqDataFrames"): returns the names of the runs
obsdimnames: signature(x = "SeqDataFrames"): returns the names of the observation dimensions
obsDim: signature(x = "SeqDataFrames"): returns the dimension of the observations
runs: signature(x = "SeqDataFrames"): returns the number of runs
samplesize: signature(x = "SeqDataFrames"): returns the size of the samples for each run
rbind: signature(x = "SeqDataFrames"): concatenates different a list of SeqDataFrames object (with the same column structure) to a new object of class SeqDataFrames to do so we mask the rbind method from package base

Author

Thomas Stabla statho3@web.de,
Florian Camphausen fcampi@gmx.de,
Peter Ruckdeschel peter.ruckdeschel@uni-oldenburg.de,
Matthias Kohl Matthias.Kohl@stamats.de

Details

There is a validity method checking for each member of the list being a data frame and for the accordance of the column structures of the data frames.