unlist {BiocGenerics}R Documentation

Flatten list-like objects

Description

Given a list-like object x, unlist produces a vector-like object obtained by concatenating (conceptually thru c) all the top-level elements in x (each of them being expected to be a vector-like object, typically).

NOTE: This man page is for the unlist S4 generic function defined in the BiocGenerics package. See ?base::unlist for the default method (defined in the base package). Bioconductor packages can define specific methods for objects not supported by the default method.

Usage

unlist(x, recursive=TRUE, use.names=TRUE)

Arguments

x

A list-like R object.

recursive, use.names

See ?base::unlist for a description of these arguments.

Value

See ?base::unlist for the value returned by the default method.

Specific methods defined in Bioconductor packages should behave as consistently as possible with the default method.

See Also

base::unlist for the default unlist method.

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

selectMethod for getting the definition of a specific method.

unlist,List-method in the IRanges package for an example of a specific unlist method (defined for List objects).

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

Examples

unlist  # note the dispatch on the 'x' arg only
showMethods("unlist")
selectMethod("unlist", "ANY")  # the default method

[Package BiocGenerics version 0.6.0 Index]