Objects from the Class
Objects are created internally, by parsing XML retrieved from the
local NetAffx data base or from the Affymetrix web site. Slots
Objects have a variety of slots. To discover slot names and content
type, see the slotNames
portion of the example, below. Extends
Class "NetAffxCompatibility"
, directly.
Class "AffyCompatible"
, by class "NetAffxCompatibility", distance 2.Methods
'Read' methods are defined on auto-generated classes to access slot
content. Accessors are apparent from displaying the object; each line of the
display is of the form accessor: content
. To retrieve the
content of an instance object
, invoke accessor(object)
. Some objects contains several instances of another object. These
'typed associations' are represented by the
.TypedAssociation
class, and are navigated or
subset as one would a standard R vector, e.g., using [
,
[[
. A useful paradigm for displaying all instances is
illustrated on the NetAffxResource
page.