BiocGenerics-package {BiocGenerics}R Documentation

Generic functions for Bioconductor

Description

S4 generic functions needed by many Bioconductor packages.

Details

We divide the generic functions defined in the BiocGenerics package in 2 categories: (1) functions already defined in base R and explicitly promoted to generics in BiocGenerics, and (2) Bioconductor specific generics.

(1) Functions defined in base R and explicitly promoted to generics in the BiocGenerics package

Generics for functions defined in package base:

Generics for functions defined in package graphics:

Generics for functions defined in package stats:

Generics for functions defined in package parallel:

(2) Bioconductor specific generics

Note

More generics can be added on request by sending an email to the Bioc-devel mailing list:

http://bioconductor.org/help/mailing-list/

Things that should NOT be added to the BiocGenerics package:

Author(s)

The Bioconductor Dev Team

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.

setGeneric and setMethod for defining generics and methods.

Examples

## List all the symbols defined in this package:
ls('package:BiocGenerics')

[Package BiocGenerics version 0.6.0 Index]