BiocGenerics (version 0.18.0)

as.data.frame: Coerce an object into a data frame

Description

Function to coerce to a data frame, if possible.

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

Usage

as.data.frame(x, row.names=NULL, optional=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x
The object to coerce.
row.names, optional, ...
See ?base::as.data.frame for a description of these arguments.

Value

A data frame.See ?base::as.data.frame 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

Examples

Run this code
as.data.frame  # note the dispatch on the 'x' arg only
showMethods("as.data.frame")
selectMethod("as.data.frame", "ANY")  # the default method

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