Package 'Biobase'

Description

Biobase Package Overview

Details

Important data classes: ExpressionSet, AnnotatedDataFrame MIAME. Full help on methods and associated functions is available from within class help pages.

Additional data classes: eSet, MIAxE, MultiSet. Additional manipulation and data structuring classes: Versioned, VersionedBiobase, aggregator, container.

Vignette routines: openVignette, getPkgVigs, openPDF.

Package manipulation functions: createPackage and package.version

Data sets: aaMap, sample.ExpressionSet, geneData.

Introductory information is available from vignettes, type openVignette().

Full listing of documented articles is available in HTML view by typing help.start() and selecting Biobase package from the Packages menu or via library(help="Biobase").

Author(s)

O. Sklyar

Description

These generic functions access generic data, abstracts, PubMed IDs and experiment data from instances of the eSet-class or ExpressionSet-class.

Usage

abstract(object)
pubMedIds(object)
pubMedIds(object) <- value
experimentData(object)
experimentData(object) <- value

Arguments

Value

abstract returns a character vector containing the abstract (as in a published paper) associated with object.

pubMedIds returns a character vector of PUBMED IDs associated with the experiment.

experimentData returns an object representing the description of an experiment, e.g., an object of MIAME-class

Author(s)

Biocore

See Also

ExpressionSet-class, eSet-class, MIAME-class

Description

This function adds a menu item for a package's vignettes.

Usage

addVigs2WinMenu(pkgName)

Arguments

Details

The original functions addVig2Menu, addVig4Win, addVig4Unix, addNonExisting, addPDF2Vig have been replaced by addVigs2WinMenu, please use those instead.

Value

The functions do not return any value.

Author(s)

Jianhua Zhang and Jeff Gentry

Examples

# Only works for windows now
    if(interactive() && .Platform$OS.type == "windows" &&
             .Platform$GUI == "Rgui"){
        addVigs2WinMenu("Biobase")
    }

Description

Given an environment and an aggregator (an object of class aggregate simple aggregations are made.

Usage

Aggregate(x, agg)

Arguments

Details

Given some data, x the user can accumulate (or aggregate) information in env using the two supplied functions. See the accompanying documentation for a more complete example of this function and its use.

Value

No value is returned. This function is evaluated purely for side effects. The symbols and values in env are altered.

Author(s)

R. Gentleman

See Also

new.env, class:aggregator

Examples

agg1 <- new("aggregator")
  Aggregate(letters[1:10], agg1)
  # the first 10 letters should be symbols in env1 with values of 1
  Aggregate(letters[5:11], agg1)
  # now letters[5:10] should have value 2
  bb <- mget(letters[1:11], env=aggenv(agg1), ifnotfound=NA)
  t1 <- as.numeric(bb); names(t1) <- names(bb)
  t1
# a b c d e f g h i j k
# 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 1

Description

A class of objects designed to help aggregate calculations over an iterative computation. The aggregator consists of three objects. An environment to hold the values. A function that sets up an initial value the first time an object is seen. An aggregate function that increments the value of an object seen previously.

Details

This class is used to help aggregate different values over function calls. A very simple example is to use leave one out cross-validation for prediction. At each stage we first perform feature selection and then cross-validate. To keep track of how often each feature is selected we can use an aggregator. At the end of the cross-validation we can extract the names of the features chosen from aggenv.

Creating Objects

new('aggregator', aggenv = [environment], initfun = [function], aggfun = [function])

Slots

aggenv:

Object of class 'environment', holds the values between iterations

initfun:

Object of class 'function' specifies how to initialize the value for a name the first time it is encountered

aggfun:

Object of class 'function' used to increment (or perform any other function) on a name

Methods

aggenv(aggregator):

Used to access the environment of the aggregator

aggfun(aggregator):

Used to access the function that aggregates

initfun(aggregator):

Used to access the initializer function

See Also

Aggregate

Description

An AnnotatedDataFrame consists of two parts. There is a collection of samples and the values of variables measured on those samples. There is also a description of each variable measured. The components of an AnnotatedDataFrame can be accessed with pData and varMetadata.

Extends

Versioned

Creating Objects

AnnotatedDataFrame(data, varMetadata, dimLabels=c("rowNames", "columnNames"), ...)

AnnotatedDataFrame instances are created using AnnotatedDataFrame. The function can take three arguments, data is a data.frame of the samples (rows) and measured variables (columns). varMetadata is a data.frame with the number of rows equal to the number of columns of the data argument. varMetadata describes aspects of each measured variable. dimLabels provides aesthetic control for labeling rows and columns in the show method. varMetadata and dimLabels can be missing.

as(data.frame, "AnnotatedDataFrame") coerces a data.frame to an AnnotatedDataFrame.

annotatedDataFrameFrom may be a convenient way to create an AnnotatedDataFrame from AssayData-class.

Slots

Class-specific slots:

data:

A data.frame containing samples (rows) and measured variables (columns).

dimLabels:

A character vector of length 2 that provides labels for the rows and columns in the show method.

varMetadata:

A data.frame with number of rows equal number of columns in data, and at least one column, named labelDescription, containing a textual description of each variable.

.__classVersion__:

A Versions object describing the R and Biobase version numbers used to created the instance. Intended for developer use.

Methods

Class-specific methods.

as(annotatedDataFrame, "data.frame")

Coerce objects of AnnotatedDataFrame to data.frame.

combine(<AnnotatedDataFrame>, <AnnotatedDataFrame>:

Bind data from one AnnotatedDataFrame to a second AnnotatedDataFrame, returning the result as an AnnotatedDataFrame. Row (sample) names in each argument must be unique. Variable names present in both arguments occupy a single column in the resulting AnnotatedDataFrame. Variable names unique to either argument create columns with values assigned for those samples where the variable is present. varMetadata in the returned AnnotatedDataFrame is updated to reflect the combination.

pData(<AnnotatedDataFrame>), pData(<AnnotatedDataFrame>)<-<data.frame>:

Set and retrieve the data (samples and variables) in the AnnotatedDataFrame

varMetadata(<AnnotatedDataFrame>), varMetadata(<AnnotatedDataFrame>)<-<data.frame>:

Set and retrieve the meta-data (variables and their descriptions) in the AnnotatedDataFrame

featureNames(<AnnotatedDataFrame>), featureNames(<AnnotatedDataFrame>)<-<ANY>:

Set and retrieve the feature names in AnnotatedDataFrame; a synonym for sampleNames.

sampleNames(<AnnotatedDataFrame>), sampleNames(<AnnotatedDataFrame>)<-<ANY>:

Set and retrieve the sample names in AnnotatedDataFrame

varLabels(<AnnotatedDataFrame>), varLabels(<AnnotatedDataFrame>)<-<data.frame>:

Set and retrieve the variable labels in the AnnotatedDataFrame

dimLabels(<AnnotatedDataFrame>), dimLabels(<AnnotatedDataFrame>) <- <character>

Retrieve labels used for display of AnnotatedDataFrame, e.g., ‘rowNames’, ‘columnNames’.

Standard generic methods:

initialize(<AnnotatedDataFrame>):

Object instantiation, used by new; not to be called directly by the user.

as(<data.frame>, "AnnotatedDataFrame"):

Convert a data.frame to an AnnotatedDataFrame.

validObject(<AnnotatedDataFrame>):

Validity-checking method, ensuring coordination between data and varMetadata elements

updateObject(object, ..., verbose=FALSE)

Update instance to current version, if necessary. See updateObject

isCurrent(object)

Determine whether version of object is current. See isCurrent

isVersioned(object)

Determine whether object contains a 'version' string describing its structure . See isVersioned

show(<AnnotatedDataFrame>)

Abbreviated display of object

[<sample>,<variable>:

Subset operation, taking two arguments and indexing the sample and variable. Returns an AnnotatedDataFrame, i.e., including relevant metadata. Unlike a data.frame, setting drop=TRUE generates an error.

[[<variable>, $<variable>:

Selector returning a variable (column of pData).

[[<variable>, ...]]<-<new_value>, $<variable> <- <new_value>:

Replace or add a variable to pData. ... can include named arguments (especially labelDescription) to be added to varMetadata.

head(<AnnotatedDataFrame>, n = 6L, ...), tail(<AnnotatedDataFrame>, n=6L, ...)

Select the first (last for tail) n rows; negative n returns the first (last) nrow() - n rows.

dim(<AnnotatedDataFrame>), ncol(<AnnotatedDataFrame>):

Number of samples and variables (dim) and variables (ncol) in the argument.

dimnames(<AnnotatedDataFrame>), rownames(<AnnotatedDataFrame>), colnames(<AnnotatedDataFrame>):

row and column names.

Author(s)

V.J. Carey, after initial design by R. Gentleman

See Also

eSet, ExpressionSet, read.AnnotatedDataFrame

Examples

df <- data.frame(x=1:6,
                 y=rep(c("Low", "High"),3),
                 z=I(LETTERS[1:6]),
                 row.names=paste("Sample", 1:6, sep="_"))
metaData <-
  data.frame(labelDescription=c(
               "Numbers",
               "Factor levels",
               "Characters"))

AnnotatedDataFrame()
AnnotatedDataFrame(data=df)
AnnotatedDataFrame(data=df, varMetadata=metaData)
as(df, "AnnotatedDataFrame")

obj <- AnnotatedDataFrame()
pData(obj) <- df
varMetadata(obj) <- metaData
validObject(obj)

Description

annotatedDataFrameFrom is a convenience for creating AnnotatedDataFrame objects.

Methods

Use the method with annotatedDataFrameFrom(object, byrow=FALSE, ...); the argument byrow must be specified.

signature(object="assayData")

This method creates an AnnotatedDataFrame using sample (when byrow=FALSE) or feature (byrow=TRUE) names and dimensions of an AssayData object as a template.

signature(object="matrix")

This method creates an AnnotatedDataFrame using column (when byrow=FALSE) or row (byrow=TRUE) names and dimensions of a matrix object as a template.

signature(object="NULL")

This method (called with 'NULL' as the object) creates an empty AnnotatedDataFrame; provides dimLabels based on value of byrow.

Author(s)

Biocore team

Description

IMPORTANT NOTE: anyMissing() was deprecated in Biobase 2.69.1. Please use anyNA() instead.

Checks if there are any missing values in an object or not.

Usage

anyMissing(x=NULL)

Arguments

Details

The implementation of this method is optimized for both speed and memory.

Value

Returns TRUE if a missing value was detected, otherwise FALSE.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)

Examples

## IMPORTANT NOTE: anyMissing() was deprecated in Biobase 2.69.1.
## Please use anyNA() instead.
## Not run: 
x <- rnorm(n=1000)
x[seq(300,length(x),by=100)] <- NA
stopifnot(anyMissing(x) == any(is.na(x)))

## End(Not run)

Description

This generic function accesses assay data stored in an object derived from the eSet or ExpressionSet class.

Usage

assayData(object)
assayData(object) <- value

Arguments

Value

assayData applied to eSet-derived classes returns a list or environment; applied to ExpressionSet, the method returns an environment. See the class documentation for specific details.

Author(s)

Biocore

See Also

eSet-class, ExpressionSet-class, SnpSet-class

Description

Container class defined as a class union of list and environment. Designed to contain one or more matrices of the same dimension.

Methods

combine

signature(x = "AssayData", y = "AssayData"): This method uses cbind to create new AssayData elements that contain the samples of both arguments x and y.

Both AssayData arguments to combine must have the same collection of elements. The elements must have identical numbers of rows (features). The numerical contents of any columns (samples) present in the same element of different AssayData must be identical. The storageMode of the AssayData arguments must be identical, and the function returns an AssayData with storageMode matching the incoming mode. See also combine,eSet,eSet-method

featureNames

signature(object = "AssayData")

featureNames<-

signature(object = "AssayData", value = "ANY"): Return or set the feature names as a character vector. These are the row names of the AssayData elements. value can be a character or numeric vector; all entries must be unique.

sampleNames

signature(object = "AssayData")

sampleNames<-

signature(object = "AssayData", value="ANY"): Return or set the sample names. These are the column names of the the AssayData elements and the row names of phenoData. value can be a character or numeric vector.

storageMode

signature(object = "AssayData")

storageMode<-

signature(object = "AssayData", value="character"): Return or set the storage mode for the instance. value can be one of three choices: "lockedEnvironment", "environment", and "list". Environments offer a mechanism for storing data that avoids some of the copying that occurs when using lists. Locked environment help to ensure data integrity. Note that environments are one of the few R objects that are pass-by-reference. This means that if you modify a copy of an environment, you also modify the original. For this reason, we recommend using lockedEnvironment whenever possible.

Additional functions operating on AssayData include:

assayData[[name]]

Select element name from assayData.

assayDataNew(storage.mode = c("lockedEnvironment", "environment", "list"), ...)

Use storage.mode to create a new list or environment containing the named elements in ...

assayDataValidMembers(assayData, required)

Validate assayData, ensuring that the named elements required are present, matrices are of the same dimension, and featureNames (rownames) are consistent (identical or NULL) across entries.

assayDataElement(object, element)

See eSet-class

assayDataElementReplace(object, element, value, validate=TRUE)

See eSet-class

assayDataElementNames(object)

See eSet-class

Author(s)

Biocore

See Also

eSet-class ExpressionSet-class

Description

Cache the evaluation of an expression in the file system.

Usage

cache(expr, dir=".", prefix="tmp_R_cache_")

Arguments

Details

This function can be useful during the development of computationally intensive workflows, for example in vignettes or scripts. The function uses a cache file in dir which defaults to the current working directory whose name is obtained by paste(prefix, name, ".RData", sep="").

When cache is called and the cache file exists, it is loaded and the object whose name is given on the left of <- in expr is returned. In this case, expr is not evaluted.

When cache is called and the cache file does not exist, expr is evaluted, its value is saved into a cache file, and then its value is returned.

The expr argument must be of the form of someVar <- {expressions}. That is, the left hand side must be a single symbol name and the next syntactic token must be <-.

To flush the cache and force recomputation, simply remove the cache files. You can use file.remove to do this.

Value

The (cached) value of expr.

Note

The first version of this function had a slightly different interface which is no longer functional. The old version has arguments name and expr and the intended usage is: foo <- cache("foo", expr).

Author(s)

Wolfgang Huber, [email protected] Seth Falcon, [email protected]

Examples

bigCalc <- function() runif(10)
    cache(myComplicatedObject <- bigCalc())
    aCopy <- myComplicatedObject
    remove(myComplicatedObject)
    cache(myComplicatedObject <- bigCalc())
    stopifnot(all.equal(myComplicatedObject, aCopy))
    allCacheFiles <-
       list.files(".", pattern="^tmp_R_cache_.*\\.RData$", full.name=TRUE)
    file.remove(allCacheFiles)

Description

This generic function extracts a specific element from an object, returning a instance of the ExpressionSet class.

Usage

channel(object, name, ...)

Arguments

Value

An instance of class ExpressionSet.

Author(s)

Biocore

Examples

obj <- NChannelSet(
           R=matrix(runif(100), 20, 5),
           G=matrix(runif(100), 20, 5))
## G channel as ExpressionSet
channel(obj, "G")

Description

This generic function reports or updates the channels in an object.

Usage

channelNames(object, ...)
channelNames(object, ...) <- value

Arguments

Details

channelNames returns the names of the channels in a defined order. Change the order using the replacement method with a permuation of the channel names as value. Rename channels using the replacement method with a named list, where the vector elements are a permutation of the current channels, with corresponding names the new identifier for the channel.

Value

character.

Author(s)

Biocore

Examples

## channelNames default to alphabetical order of channels
obj <- NChannelSet(
           R=matrix(runif(100), 20, 5),
           G=matrix(-runif(100), 20, 5))
channelNames(obj)
channelNames(obj) <- c(Gn="G", Rd="R")   ## rename
channelNames(obj)
channelNames(obj) <- c("Rd", "Gn")       ## reorder
channelNames(obj)
all(assayData(obj)[["Gn"]] <= 0)
all(assayData(obj)[["Rd"]] >= 0)

Description

This class can be either character or MIAME.

Methods

No methods defined with class "characterORMIAME" in the signature.

See Also

See also MIAME

Description

These generic functions return version information for classes derived from Versioned-class, or VersionsNull-class for unversioned objects. The version information is an object of Versions-class.

By default, classVersion has the following behaviors:

classVersion(Versioned-instance)

Returns a Versions-class object obtained from the object.

classVersion{"class"}

Consults the definition of class and return the current version information, if available.

classVersion(ANY)

Return a VersionsNull-class object to indicate no version information available.

By default, the classVersion<- method has the following behavior:

classVersion(Versioned-instance)["id"] <- value

Assign (update or add) value to Versions-instance. value is coerced to a valid version description. see Versions-class for additional access methods.

Usage

classVersion(object)
classVersion(object) <- value

Arguments

Value

classVersion returns an instance of Versions-class

Author(s)

Biocore team

See Also

Versions-class

Examples

obj <- new("VersionedBiobase")

classVersion(obj)
classVersion(obj)["Biobase"]
classVersion(1:10) # no version
classVersion("ExpressionSet") # consult ExpressionSet prototype

classVersion(obj)["MyVersion"] <- "1.0.0"
classVersion(obj)

Description

Container class that specializes the list construct of R to provide content and access control

Creating Objects

new('container', x = [list], content = [character], locked = [logical])

Slots

x

list of entities that are guaranteed to share a certain property

content

tag describing container contents

locked

boolean indicator of locked status. Value of TRUE implies assignments into the container are not permitted

Methods

Class-specific methods:

content(container)

returns content slot of argument

locked(container)

returns locked slot of argument

Standard methods defined for 'container':

show(container)

prints container

length(container)

returns number of elements in the container

[[(index) and [[(index, value)

access and replace elements in the container

[(index)

make a subset of a container (which will itself be a container)

Examples

x1 <- new("container", x=vector("list", length=3), content="lm")
  lm1 <- lm(rnorm(10)~runif(10))
  x1[[1]] <- lm1

Description

The contents method is used to retrieve the values stored in an environment.

Usage

contents(object, all.names)

Arguments

Value

A named list is returned, where the elements are the objects stored in the environment. The names of the elements are the names of the objects.

The all.names argument is identical to the one used in as.list.environment.

Author(s)

R. Gentleman

See Also

as.list.environment

Examples

z <- new.env()
  multiassign(letters, 1:26, envir=z)
  contents(z)

Description

These functions can be used to make copies of environments, or to get/assign all of the objects inside of an environment.

Usage

copyEnv(oldEnv, newEnv, all.names=FALSE)

Arguments

Details

copyEnv: This function will make a copy of the contents from oldEnv and place them into newEnv.

Author(s)

Jeff Gentry and R. Gentleman

See Also

environment, as.list

Examples

z <- new.env(hash=TRUE, parent=emptyenv(), size=29L)
   multiassign(c("a","b","c"), c(1,2,3), z)

   a <- copyEnv(z)
   ls(a)

Description

Copy files, directory trees or between connections and replace all occurences of a symbol by the corresponding value.

Usage

copySubstitute(src, dest, symbolValues, symbolDelimiter="@", allowUnresolvedSymbols=FALSE,
               recursive = FALSE, removeExtension = "\\.in$")

Arguments

Details

Symbol substitution: this is best explained with an example. If the list symbolValues contains an element with name FOO and value bar, and symbolDelimiter is @, then any occurrence of @FOO@ is replaced by bar. This applies both the text contents of the files in src as well as to the filenames. See examples.

If recursive is FALSE, both src and dest must be connection or a filenames. The text in src is read through the function readLines, symbols are replaced by their values, and the result is written to dest through the function writeLines.

If recursive is TRUE, copySubstitute works recursively down a directory tree (see details and example). src must be a character vector with multiple filenames or directory names, dest a directory name.

One use of this function is in createPackage for the automatic generation of packages from a template package directory.

Value

None. The function is called for its side effect.

Author(s)

Wolfgang Huber http://www.dkfz.de/mga/whuber

Examples

## create an example file
infile  = tempfile()
outfile = tempfile()

writeLines(text=c("We will perform in @WHAT@:",
  "So, thanks to @WHOM@ at once and to each one,",
  "Whom we invite to see us crown'd at @WHERE@."),
  con = infile)

## create the symbol table
z = list(WHAT="measure, time and place", WHOM="all", WHERE="Scone")

## run copySubstitute
copySubstitute(infile, outfile, z)

## display the results
readLines(outfile)



##--------------------------------------------------------------
## This is a slightly more complicated example that demonstrates
## how copySubstitute works on nested directories
##--------------------------------------------------------------
d = tempdir()
my.dir.create = function(x) {dir.create(x); return(x)}

unlink(file.path(d, "src"), recursive=TRUE)
unlink(file.path(d, "dest"), recursive=TRUE)

## create some directories and files:
src  = my.dir.create(file.path(d, "src"))
dest = file.path(d, "dest")
d1   = my.dir.create(file.path(src, "dir1.in"))
d2   = my.dir.create(file.path(src, "dir2@[email protected]"))
d3   = my.dir.create(file.path(d2, "dir3"))
d4   = my.dir.create(file.path(d3, "dir4"))
d5   = my.dir.create(file.path(d4, "dir5@BAR@"))
writeLines(c("File1:", "FOO: @FOO@"),     file.path(d1, "file1.txt.in"))
writeLines(c("File2:", "BAR: @BAR@"),     file.path(d2, "file2.txt.in"))
writeLines(c("File3:", "SUN: @SUN@"),     file.path(d3, "file3.txt.in"))
writeLines(c("File4:", "MOON: @MOON@"),   file.path(d4, "@[email protected]"))

## call copySubstitute
copySubstitute(src, dest, recursive=TRUE,
               symbolValues = list(FOO="thefoo", BAR="thebar",
                                   SUN="thesun", MOON="themoon"))

## view the result
listsrc  = dir(src,  full.names=TRUE, recursive=TRUE)
listdest = dir(dest, full.names=TRUE, recursive=TRUE)
listsrc
listdest

cat(unlist(lapply(listsrc,  readLines)), sep="\n")
cat(unlist(lapply(listdest, readLines)), sep="\n")

Description

Create a package directory from a template, with symbol-value substitution

Usage

createPackage(pkgname, destinationDir, originDir, symbolValues, unlink=FALSE, quiet=FALSE)

Arguments

Details

The intended use of this function is for the automated mass production of data packages, such as the microarray annotation, CDF, and probe sequence packages.

No syntactic or other checking of the package is performed. For this, use R CMD check.

The symbols @PKGNAME@ and @DATE@ are automatically defined with the values of pkgname and date(), respectively.

Value

The function returns a list with one element pkgdir: the path to the package.

Author(s)

Wolfgang Huber http://www.dkfz.de/mga/whuber

See Also

copySubstitute, the reference manual Writing R extensions.

Examples

sym  = list(AUTHOR = "Hesiod", VERSION = "1.0",
         TITLE = "the nine muses",
         FORMAT = "Character vector containg the names of the 9 muses.")

  res  = createPackage("muses",
           destinationDir = tempdir(),
           originDir      = system.file("Code", package="Biobase"),
           symbolValues   = sym,
           unlink = TRUE, quiet = FALSE)

  muses = c("Calliope", "Clio", "Erato", "Euterpe", "Melpomene",
            "Polyhymnia", "Terpsichore", "Thalia", "Urania")

  dir.create(file.path(res$pkgdir, "data"))

  save(muses, file = file.path(res$pkgdir, "data", "muses.rda"))

  res$pkgdir

Description

The aaMap data frame has 20 rows and 6 columns. Includes elementary information about amino acids.

Usage

data(aaMap)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

name

amino acid name

let.1

one-letter code

let.3

three-letter code

scProp

side chain property at pH 7 (polar/nonpolar)

hyPhilic

logical: side chain is hydrophilic at pH 7

acidic

logical: side chain is acidic at pH 7

Source

Nei M and Kumar S: Molecular evolution and phylogenetics (Oxford 2000), Table 1.2

Examples

data(aaMap)

Description

The geneData data.frame has 500 rows and 26 columns. It consists of a subset of real expression data from an Affymetrix U95v2 chip. The data are anonymous. The covariate data geneCov and geneCovariate are made up. The standard error data seD is also made up.

Usage

data(geneData)

Format

A 500 by 26 data frame.

Source

The J. Ritz Laboratory (S. Chiaretti).

Examples

data(geneData)
data(geneCovariate)
data(seD)

Description

The expression data are real but anonymized. The data are from an experiment that used Affymetrix U95v2 chips. The data were processed by dChip and then exported to R for analysis.

The data illustrate ExpressionSet-class, with assayData containing the required matrix element exprs and an additional matrix se.exprs. se.exprs has the same dimensions as exprs.

The phenoData and standard error estimates (se.exprs) are made up. The information in the "description" slot is fake.

Usage

data(sample.ExpressionSet)

Format

The data for 26 cases, labeled A to Z and 500 genes. Each case has three covariates: sex (male/female); type (case/control); and score (testing score).

Examples

data(sample.ExpressionSet)

Description

The expression data are real but anonymized. The data are from an experiment that used Affymetrix U95v2 chips. The data were processed by dChip and then exported to R for analysis.

The phenoData, standard error estimates, and description data are fake.

Usage

data(sample.MultiSet)

Format

The data for 4 cases, labeled a to d and 500 genes. Each case has five covariates: SlideNumber: number; FileName: name; Cy3: genotype labeled Cy3; Cy5: genotype labeled Cy5; Date: date.

Examples

data(sample.MultiSet)

Description

These generic functions access experimental information associated with eSet-class.

Usage

description(object, ...)
description(object) <- value

Arguments

Value

description returns an object of MIAME-class.

Author(s)

Biocore

See Also

eSet-class, MIAME-class

Description

Dump textual description of a package

Usage

dumpPackTxt(package)

Arguments

Details

dumps DESCRIPTION and INDEX files from package sources

Value

stdout output

Note

Other approaches using formatDL are feasible

Author(s)

<[email protected]>

Examples

dumpPackTxt("stats")

Description

esApply is a wrapper to apply for use with ExpressionSets. The application of a function to rows of an expression array usually involves variables in pData. esApply uses a special evaluation paradigm to make this easy. The function FUN may reference any data in pData by name.

Usage

esApply(X, MARGIN, FUN, ...)

Arguments

Details

The pData from X is installed in an environment. This environment is installed as the environment of FUN. This will then provide bindings for any symbols in FUN that are the same as the names of the pData of X. If FUN has an environment already it is retained but placed after the newly created environment. Some variable shadowing could occur under these circumstances.

Value

The result of with(pData(x), apply(exprs(X), MARGIN, FUN, ...)).

Author(s)

V.J. Carey <[email protected]>, R. Gentleman

See Also

apply, ExpressionSet

Examples

data(sample.ExpressionSet)
## sum columns of exprs
res <- esApply(sample.ExpressionSet, 1, sum)

## t-test, spliting samples by 'sex'
f <- function(x) {
    xx <- split(x, sex)
    t.test(xx[[1]], xx[[2]])$p.value
}
res <- esApply(sample.ExpressionSet, 1, f)

## same, but using a variable passed in the function call

f <- function(x, s) {
    xx <- split(x, s)
    mean(xx[[1]]) - mean(xx[[2]])
}
sex <- sample.ExpressionSet[["sex"]]
res <- esApply(sample.ExpressionSet, 1, f, s = sex)

# obtain the p-value of the t-test for sex difference
mytt.demo <- function(y) {
 ys <- split(y, sex)
 t.test(ys[[1]], ys[[2]])$p.value
}
sexPValue <- esApply(sample.ExpressionSet, 1, mytt.demo)

# obtain the p-value of the slope associated with score, adjusting for sex
# (if we were concerned with sign we could save the z statistic instead at coef[3,3]
myreg.demo <- function(y) {
   summary(lm(y ~ sex + score))$coef[3,4]
}
scorePValue <- esApply(sample.ExpressionSet, 1, myreg.demo)

# a resampling method
resamp <- function(ESET) {
 ntiss <- ncol(exprs(ESET))
 newind <- sample(1:ntiss, size = ntiss, replace = TRUE)
 ESET[newind,]
}

# a filter
q3g100filt <- function(eset) {
 apply(exprs(eset), 1, function(x) quantile(x,.75) > 100)
}

# filter after resampling and then apply
set.seed(123)
rest <- esApply({bool <- q3g100filt(resamp(sample.ExpressionSet)); sample.ExpressionSet[bool,]},
                1, mytt.demo)

Description

Container for high-throughput assays and experimental metadata. Classes derived from eSet contain one or more identical-sized matrices as assayData elements. Derived classes (e.g., ExpressionSet-class, SnpSet-class) specify which elements must be present in the assayData slot.

eSet object cannot be instantiated directly; see the examples for usage.

Creating Objects

eSet is a virtual class, so instances cannot be created.

Objects created under previous definitions of eSet-class can be coerced to the current classes derived from eSet using updateOldESet.

Slots

Introduced in eSet:

assayData:

Contains matrices with equal dimensions, and with column number equal to nrow(phenoData). Class:AssayData-class

phenoData:

Contains experimenter-supplied variables describing sample (i.e., columns in assayData) phenotypes. Class: AnnotatedDataFrame-class

featureData:

Contains variables describing features (i.e., rows in assayData) unique to this experiment. Use the annotation slot to efficiently reference feature data common to the annotation package used in the experiment. Class: AnnotatedDataFrame-class

experimentData:

Contains details of experimental methods. Class: MIAME-class

annotation:

Label associated with the annotation package used in the experiment. Class: character

protocolData:

Contains microarray equipment-generated variables describing sample (i.e., columns in assayData) phenotypes. Class: AnnotatedDataFrame-class

.__classVersion__:

A Versions object describing the R and Biobase version numbers used to created the instance. Intended for developer use.

Methods

Methods defined in derived classes (e.g., ExpressionSet-class, SnpSet-class) may override the methods described here.

Class-specific methods:

sampleNames(object) and sampleNames(object)<-value:

Coordinate accessing and setting sample names in assayData and phenoData

featureNames(object), featureNames(object) <- value:

Coordinate accessing and setting of feature names (e.g, genes, probes) in assayData.

dimnames(object), dimnames(object) <- value:

Also rownames and colnames; access and set feature and sample names.

dims(object):

Access the common dimensions (dim) or column numbers (ncol), or dimensions of all members (dims) of assayData.

phenoData(object), phenoData(object) <- value:

Access and set phenoData. Adding new columns to phenoData is often more easily done with eSetObject[["columnName"]] <- value.

pData(object), pData(object) <- value:

Access and set sample data information. Adding new columns to pData is often more easily done with eSetObject[["columnName"]] <- value.

varMetadata(object), varMetadata(eSet,value)

Access and set metadata describing variables reported in pData

varLabels(object), varLabels(eSet, value)<-:

Access and set variable labels in phenoData.

featureData(object), featureData(object) <- value:

Access and set featureData.

fData(object), fData(object) <- value:

Access and set feature data information.

fvarMetadata(object), fvarMetadata(eSet,value)

Access and set metadata describing features reported in fData

fvarLabels(object), fvarLabels(eSet, value)<-:

Access and set variable labels in featureData.

assayData(object), assayData(object) <- value:

signature(object = "eSet", value = "AssayData"): Access and replace the AssayData slot of an eSet instance. assayData returns a list or environment; elements in assayData not accessible in other ways (e.g., via exprs applied directly to the eSet) can most reliably be accessed with, e.g., assayData(obj)[["se.exprs"]].

experimentData(object),experimentData(object) <- value:

Access and set details of experimental methods

description(object),description(object) <- value:

Synonymous with experimentData.

notes(object),notes(object) <- value:

signature(object="eSet", value="list") Retrieve and set unstructured notes associated with eSet. signature(object="eSet", value="character") As with value="list", but append value to current list of notes.

pubMedIds(object), pubMedIds(eSet,value)

Access and set PMIDs in experimentData.

abstract(object):

Access abstract in experimentData.

annotation(object), annotation(object) <- value

Access and set annotation label indicating package used in the experiment.

protocolData(object), protocolData(object) <- value

Access and set the protocol data.

preproc(object), preproc(object) <- value:

signature(object="eSet", value="list") Access and set preprocessing information in the MIAME-class object associated with this eSet.

combine(eSet,eSet):

Combine two eSet objects. To be combined, eSets must have identical numbers of featureNames, distinct sampleNames, and identical annotation.

storageMode(object), storageMode(eSet,character)<-:

Change storage mode of assayData. Can be used to 'unlock' environments, or to change between list and environment modes of storing assayData.

Standard generic methods:

initialize(object):

Object instantiation, can be called by derived classes but not usually by the user.

validObject(object):

Validity-checking method, ensuring (1) all assayData components have the same number of features and samples; (2) the number and names of phenoData rows match the number and names of assayData columns

as(eSet, "ExpressionSet")

Convert instance of class "eSet" to instance of ExpressionSet-class, if possible.

as(eSet, "MultiSet")

Convert instance of class "eSet" to instance of MultiSet-class, if possible.

updateObject(object, ..., verbose=FALSE)

Update instance to current version, if necessary. Usually called through class inheritance rather than directly by the user. See updateObject

updateObjectTo(object, template, ..., verbose=FALSE)

Update instance to current version by updating slots in template, if necessary. Usually call by class inheritance, rather than directly by the user. See updateObjectTo

isCurrent(object)

Determine whether version of object is current. See isCurrent

isVersioned(object)

Determine whether object contains a 'version' string describing its structure . See isVersioned

show(object)

Informatively display object contents.

dim(object), ncol

Access the common dimensions (dim) or column numbers (ncol), of all memebers (dims) of assayData.

object[(index):

Conducts subsetting of matrices and phenoData components

object$name, object$name<-value

Access and set name column in phenoData

object[[i, ...]], object[[i, ...]]<-value

Access and set column i (character or numeric index) in phenoData. The ... argument can include named variables (especially labelDescription) to be added to varMetadata.

Additional functions:

assayDataElement(object, element)

Return matrix element from assayData slot of object.

assayDataElement(object, element, validate=TRUE) <- value)

Set element element in assayData slot of object to matrix value. If validate=TRUE, check that value row and column names of conform to object.

assayDataElementReplace(object, element, value, validate=TRUE)

Set element element in assayData slot of object to matrix value. If validate=TRUE, check that row and column names of value conform to object.

assayDataElementNames(object)

Return element names in assayData slot of object

updateOldESet

Update versions of eSet constructued using listOrEnv as assayData slot (before May, 2006).

Author(s)

Biocore team

See Also

Method use in ExpressionSet-class. Related classes AssayData-class, AnnotatedDataFrame-class, MIAME-class. Derived classes ExpressionSet-class, SnpSet-class. To update objects from previous class versions, see updateOldESet.

Examples

# update previous eSet-like class oldESet to existing derived class
## Not run: updateOldESet(oldESet, "ExpressionSet")

# create a new, ad hoc, class, for personal use
# all methods outlined above are available automatically
.MySet <- setClass("MySet", contains="eSet")
.MySet()

# Create a more robust class, with constructor and validation methods
# to ensure assayData contains specific matricies
.TwoColorSet <- setClass("TwoColorSet", contains="eSet")

TwoColorSet <-
    function(phenoData=AnnotatedDataFrame(), experimentData=MIAME(),
             annotation=character(), R=new("matrix"), G=new("matrix"),
             Rb=new("matrix"), Gb=new("matrix"), ...)
{
    .TwoColorSet(phenoData=phenoData, experimentData=experimentData,
                 annotation=annotation, R=R, G=G, Rb=Rb, Gb=Gb, ...)
}

setValidity("TwoColorSet", function(object) {
  assayDataValidMembers(assayData(object), c("R", "G", "Rb", "Gb"))
})

TwoColorSet()

# eSet objects cannot be instantiated directly, only derived objects
try(new("eSet"))

removeClass("MySet")
removeClass("TwoColorSet")

Description

Container for high-throughput assays and experimental metadata. ExpressionSet class is derived from eSet, and requires a matrix named exprs as assayData member.

Usage

## Instance creation
ExpressionSet(assayData,
    phenoData=annotatedDataFrameFrom(assayData, byrow=FALSE),
    featureData=annotatedDataFrameFrom(assayData, byrow=TRUE),
    experimentData=MIAME(), annotation=character(),
    protocolData=annotatedDataFrameFrom(assayData, byrow=FALSE),
    ...)

## Additional methods documented below

Arguments

Extends

Directly extends class eSet.

Creating Objects

ExpressionSet instances are usually created through ExpressionSet().

Slots

Inherited from eSet:

assayData:

Contains matrices with equal dimensions, and with column number equal to nrow(phenoData). assayData must contain a matrix exprs with rows representing features (e.g., probe sets) and columns representing samples. Additional matrices of identical size (e.g., representing measurement errors) may also be included in assayData. Class:AssayData-class

phenoData:

See eSet

featureData:

See eSet

experimentData:

See eSet

annotation:

See eSet

protocolData:

See eSet

Methods

Class-specific methods.

as(object,"data.frame")

Coerce objects of ExpressionSet-class to data.frame by transposing the expression matrix and concatenating phenoData

exprs(ExpressionSet), exprs(ExpressionSet,matrix)<-

Access and set elements named exprs in the AssayData-class slot.

esApply(ExpressionSet, MARGIN, FUN, ...)

'apply'-like function to conveniently operate on ExpressionSet objects. See esApply.

write.exprs(ExpressionSet)

Write expression values to a text file. It takes the same arguments as write.table

Derived from eSet:

updateObject(object, ..., verbose=FALSE)

Update instance to current version, if necessary. See updateObject and eSet

isCurrent(object)

Determine whether version of object is current. See isCurrent

isVersioned(object)

Determine whether object contains a 'version' string describing its structure . See isVersioned

assayData(ExpressionSet):

See eSet

sampleNames(ExpressionSet) and sampleNames(ExpressionSet)<-:

See eSet

featureNames(ExpressionSet), featureNames(ExpressionSet, value)<-:

See eSet

dims(ExpressionSet):

See eSet

phenoData(ExpressionSet), phenoData(ExpressionSet,value)<-:

See eSet

varLabels(ExpressionSet), varLabels(ExpressionSet, value)<-:

See eSet

varMetadata(ExpressionSet), varMetadata(ExpressionSet,value)<-:

See eSet

pData(ExpressionSet), pData(ExpressionSet,value)<-:

See eSet

varMetadata(ExpressionSet), varMetadata(ExpressionSet,value)

See eSet

experimentData(ExpressionSet),experimentData(ExpressionSet,value)<-:

See eSet

pubMedIds(ExpressionSet), pubMedIds(ExpressionSet,value)

See eSet

abstract(ExpressionSet):

See eSet

annotation(ExpressionSet), annotation(ExpressionSet,value)<-

See eSet

protocolData(ExpressionSet), protocolData(ExpressionSet,value)<-

See eSet

combine(ExpressionSet,ExpressionSet):

See eSet

storageMode(ExpressionSet), storageMode(ExpressionSet,character)<-:

See eSet

Standard generic methods:

initialize(ExpressionSet):

Object instantiation, used by new; not to be called directly by the user.

updateObject(ExpressionSet):

Update outdated versions of ExpressionSet to their current definition. See updateObject, Versions-class.

validObject(ExpressionSet):

Validity-checking method, ensuring that exprs is a member of assayData. checkValidity(ExpressionSet) imposes this validity check, and the validity checks of eSet.

makeDataPackage(object, author, email, packageName, packageVersion, license, biocViews, filePath, description=paste(abstract(object), collapse="\n\n"), ...)

Create a data package based on an ExpressionSet object. See makeDataPackage.

as(eSet,ExpressionSet):

Coerce the eSet portion of an object to ExpressionSet.

show(ExpressionSet)

See eSet

dim(ExpressionSet), ncol

See eSet

ExpressionSet[(index):

See eSet

ExpressionSet$, ExpressionSet$<-

See eSet

ExpressionSet[[i]], ExpressionSet[[i]]<-

See eSet

Author(s)

Biocore team

See Also

eSet-class, ExpressionSet-class.

Examples

# create an instance of ExpressionSet
ExpressionSet()

ExpressionSet(assayData=matrix(runif(1000), nrow=100, ncol=10))

# update an existing ExpressionSet
data(sample.ExpressionSet)
updateObject(sample.ExpressionSet)

# information about assay and sample data
featureNames(sample.ExpressionSet)[1:10]
sampleNames(sample.ExpressionSet)[1:5]
experimentData(sample.ExpressionSet)

# subset: first 10 genes, samples 2, 4, and 10
expressionSet <- sample.ExpressionSet[1:10,c(2,4,10)]

# named features and their expression levels
subset <- expressionSet[c("AFFX-BioC-3_at","AFFX-BioDn-5_at"),]
exprs(subset)

# samples with above-average 'score' in phenoData
highScores <- expressionSet$score > mean(expressionSet$score)
expressionSet[,highScores]

# (automatically) coerce to data.frame
lm(score~AFFX.BioDn.5_at + AFFX.BioC.3_at, data=subset)

Description

These generic functions access the expression and error measurements of assay data stored in an object derived from the eSet-class.

Usage

exprs(object)
exprs(object) <- value
se.exprs(object)
se.exprs(object) <- value

Arguments

Value

exprs returns a (usually large!) matrix of expression values; se.exprs returns the corresponding matrix of standard errors, when available.

Author(s)

Biocore

See Also

eSet-class, ExpressionSet-class, SnpSet-class

Description

These generic functions access feature data (experiment specific information about features) and feature meta-data (e.g., descriptions of feature covariates).

Usage

featureData(object)
featureData(object) <- value
fData(object)
fData(object) <- value
fvarLabels(object)
fvarLabels(object) <- value
fvarMetadata(object)
fvarMetadata(object) <- value

Arguments

Value

featureData returns an object containing information on both variable values and variable meta-data. fvarLabels returns a character vector of measured variable names. fData returns a data frame with features as rows, variables as columns. fvarMetadata returns a data frame with variable names as rows, description tags (e.g., unit of measurement) as columns.

Author(s)

Biocore

See Also

eSet, ExpressionSet

Description

These generic functions access the feature names (typically, gene or SNP identifiers) and sample names stored in an object derived from the eSet-class.

Usage

featureNames(object)
featureNames(object) <- value
sampleNames(object)
sampleNames(object) <- value

Arguments

Value

featureNames returns a (usually long!) character vector uniquely identifying each feature.sampleNames returns a (usually shorter) character vector identifying samples.

Author(s)

Biocore

See Also

ExpressionSet-class, SnpSet-class

Description

This function will return a listing of all vignettes stored in a package's doc directory.

Usage

getPkgVigs(package = NULL)

Arguments

Value

A data.frame with columns package, filename, title.

Author(s)

Jeff Gentry, modifications by Wolfgang Huber.

See Also

openVignette

Examples

z <- getPkgVigs()
 z # and look at them

Description

This generic function uses Versioned-class information to ask whether an instance of a class (e.g., read from disk) has current version information.

By default, isCurrent has the following behaviors:

isCurrent(Versioned-instance)

Returns a vector of logicals, indicating whether each version matches the current version from the class prototype.

isCurrent(ANY)

Return NA, indicating that the version cannot be determined

isCurrent(Versioned-instance, "class")

Returns a logical vector indicating whether version identifiers shared between Versioned-instance and "class" are current.

Starting with R-2.6 / Bioconductor 2.1 / Biobase 1.15.1, isCurrent(Versioned-instance, ...) returns an element S4 indicating whether the class has the ‘S4’ bit set; a value of FALSE indicates that the object needs to be recreated.

Usage

isCurrent(object, value)

Arguments

Value

isCurrent returns a logical vector.

Author(s)

Biocore team

See Also

Versions-class

Examples

obj <- new("VersionedBiobase")
isCurrent(obj)

isCurrent(1:10) # NA

A <- setClass("A", contains="VersionedBiobase",
         prototype=prototype(new("VersionedBiobase", versions=c(A="1.0.0"))))

a <- A()
classVersion(a)

isCurrent(a, "VersionedBiobase") # is the 'VersionedBiobase' portion current?
classVersion(a)["A"] <- "1.0.1"
classVersion(a)
isCurrent(a, "VersionedBiobase")
isCurrent(a) # more recent, so does not match 'current' defined by prototype

removeClass("A")

Description

Determines which elements of a vector occur exactly once.

Usage

isUnique(x)

Arguments

Value

A logical vector of the same length as x, in which TRUE indicates uniqueness.

Author(s)

Wolfgang Huber

See Also

unique,duplicated.

Examples

x <- c(9:20, 1:5, 3:7, 0:8)
isUnique(x)

Description

This generic function checks to see whether Versioned-class information is present. When the argument to isVersioned is a character string, the prototype of the class corresponding to the string is consulted.

By default, isVersioned has the following behaviors:

isVersioned(Versioned-instance)

Returns TRUE when the instance have version information.

isCurrent("class-name")

Returns TRUE when the named class extends Versioned-class.

isVersioned(ANY)

Returns FALSE

Usage

isVersioned(object)

Arguments

Value

isVersioned returns a logical indicating whether version information is present.

Author(s)

Biocore team

See Also

Versions-class

Examples

obj <- new("VersionedBiobase")
isVersioned(obj)

isVersioned(1:10) # FALSE

A <- setClass("A", contains="VersionedBiobase",
         prototype=prototype(new("VersionedBiobase", versions=c(A="1.0.0"))))
a <- A()
isVersioned(a)

removeClass("A")

Description

These functions find the longest common prefix or suffix among the strings in a character vector.

Usage

lcPrefix(x, ignore.case=FALSE)
lcPrefixC(x, ignore.case=FALSE)
lcSuffix(x, ignore.case=FALSE)

Arguments

Details

Computing the longest common suffix is helpful for truncating names of objects, like microarrays, that often have a common suffix, such as .CEL.

There are some potential problems with the approach used if multibyte character encodings are being used.

lcPrefixC is a faster implementation in C. It only handles ascii characters.

Value

The common prefix or suffix.

Author(s)

R. Gentleman

See Also

nchar, nchar

Examples

s1 <- c("ABC.CEL", "DEF.CEL")
lcSuffix(s1)

s2 <- c("ABC.123", "ABC.456")
lcPrefix(s2)


CHK <- stopifnot

CHK(".CEL" == lcSuffix(s1))
CHK("bc" == lcSuffix(c("abc", "333abc", "bc")))
CHK("c" == lcSuffix(c("c", "abc", "xxxc")))
CHK("" == lcSuffix(c("c", "abc", "xxx")))

CHK("ABC." == lcPrefix(s2))
CHK("ab" == lcPrefix(c("abcd", "abcd123", "ab", "abc", "abc333333")))
CHK("a" == lcPrefix(c("abcd", "abcd123", "ax")))
CHK("a" == lcPrefix(c("a", "abcd123", "ax")))
CHK("" == lcPrefix(c("a", "abc", "xxx")))

CHK("ab" == lcPrefixC(c("abcd", "abcd123", "ab", "abc", "abc333333")))
CHK("a" == lcPrefixC(c("abcd", "abcd123", "ax")))
CHK("a" == lcPrefixC(c("a", "abcd123", "ax")))
CHK("" == lcPrefixC(c("a", "abc", "xxx")))

Description

This function returns an integer vector with the length of the elements of its argument, which is expected to be a list.

Usage

listLen(x)

Arguments

Details

This function returns a vector of the same length as the list x containing the lengths of each element.

The current implementation is intended for lists containing vectors and the C-level length function is used to determine length. This means no dispatch is done for the elements of the list. If your list contains S4 objects, you should use sapply(x, length) instead.

Author(s)

Jeff Gentry and R. Gentleman

See Also

sapply

Examples

foo = lapply(1:8, rnorm)
  listLen(foo)

Description

This generic creates a valid R package from an R data object.

Usage

makeDataPackage(object, author, email,
                packageName=deparse(substitute(object)),
                packageVersion=package_version("1.0.0"),
                license="Artistic-2.0",
                biocViews="ExperimentData",
                filePath=tempdir(),
                ...)

Arguments

Details

The function makes use of various tools in R and Bioconductor to automatically generate the source files for a valid R package.

Value

The return value is that from a call to link{createPackage} which is invoked once the default arguments are set up. The data instance is stored in the data directory with a name the same as that of the resulting package.

Note

Developers implementing derived methods might force correct package name evaluation by including 'packageName' in any callNextMethod().

Author(s)

R. Gentleman

See Also

createPackage

Examples

data(sample.ExpressionSet)
 ## package created in tempdir()
 s1 <- makeDataPackage(sample.ExpressionSet,
                       author = "Foo Author",
                       email = "foo@bar",
                       packageName = "FooBarPkg",
                       packageVersion = "1.0.0")

Description

Find the nearest neighbors of a set of query points in the same or another set of points in an n-dimensional real vector space, using the Euclidean distance.

Usage

matchpt(x, y)

Arguments

Details

If y is provided, the function searches for each point in x its nearest neighbor in y. If y is missing, it searches for each point in x its nearest neighbor in x, excluding that point itself. In the case of ties, only the neighbor with the smaller index is given.

The implementation is simple and of complexity nrow(x) times nrow(y). For larger problems, please consider one of the many more efficient nearest neighbor search algorithms.

Value

A data.frame with two columns and nrow(x) rows. The first column is the index of the nearest neighbor, the second column the distance to the nearest neighbor. If y was given, the index is a row number in y, otherwise, in x. The row names of the result are those of x.

Author(s)

Oleg Sklyar [email protected]

Examples

a <- matrix(c(2,2,3,5,1,8,-1,4,5,6), ncol=2L, nrow=5L)
    rownames(a) = LETTERS[seq_len(nrow(a))]
    matchpt(a)
    b <- c(1,2,4,5,6)
    d <- c(5.3, 3.2, 8.9, 1.3, 5.6, -6, 4.45, 3.32)
    matchpt(b, d)
    matchpt(d, b)

Description

Class MIAME covers MIAME entries that are not covered by other classes in Bioconductor. Namely, experimental design, samples, hybridizations, normalization controls, and pre-processing information. The MIAME class is derived from MIAxE.

Slots

name:

Object of class character containing the experimenter name

lab:

Object of class character containing the laboratory where the experiment was conducted

contact:

Object of class character containing contact information for lab and/or experimenter

title:

Object of class character containing a single-sentence experiment title

abstract:

Object of class character containing an abstract describing the experiment

url:

Object of class character containing a URL for the experiment

samples:

Object of class list containing information about the samples

hybridizations:

Object of class list containing information about the hybridizations

normControls:

Object of class list containing information about the controls such as house keeping genes

preprocessing:

Object of class list containing information about the pre-processing steps used on the raw data from this experiment

pubMedIds:

Object of class character listing strings of PubMed identifiers of papers relevant to the dataset

other:

Object of class list containing other information for which none of the above slots does not applies

Methods

Constructor methods:

MIAME():

MIAME(name = "", lab = "", contact = "", title = "", abstract = "", url = "", pubMedIds = "" , samples = "", hybridizations = list(), normControls = list(), preprocessing = list(), other = list()): Creates a new MIAME object with slots as defined above.

Class-specific methods:

abstract(MIAME):

An accessor function for abstract.

combine(MIAME,MIAME):

Combine two objects of MIAME-class, issuing warnings when ambiguities encountered.

expinfo(MIAME):

An accessor function for name, lab, contact, title, and url.

hybridizations(MIAME):

An accessor function for hybridizations.

normControls(MIAME):

An accessor function for normControls.

notes(MIAME), notes(MIAME) <- value:

Accessor functions for other. notes(MIAME) <- character appends character to notes; use notes(MIAME) <- list to replace the notes entirely.

otherInfo(MIAME):

An accessor function for other.

preproc(MIAME):

An accessor function for preprocessing.

pubMedIds(MIAME), pubMedIds(MIAME) <- value:

Accessor function for pubMedIds.

samples(MIAME):

An accessor function for samples.

Standard generic methods:

updateObject(object, ..., verbose=FALSE)

Update instance to current version, if necessary. See updateObject

isCurrent(object)

Determine whether version of object is current. See isCurrent

isVersioned(object)

Determine whether object contains a 'version' string describing its structure . See isVersioned

show(MIAME):

Renders information about the MIAME information

Author(s)

Rafael A. Irizarry

References

http://www.mged.org/Workgroups/MIAME/miame_1.1.html

See Also

class:characterORMIAME, read.MIAME

Description

The MIAxE virtual class is a general container for storing experiment metadata. Information such as experimental design, samples, normalization methods and pre-processing information can be stored in these objets.

The MIAxE class is virtual and MIAxE objects cannot be instantiated directly. The following classes derive directly from the MIAxE class: MIAME.

Slots

Introduced in MIAxE:

.__classVersion__:

A Versions object describing the MIAxE version number. Intended for developer use.

Methods

Standard generic methods:

show(object)

Informatively display object contents.

Author(s)

Biocore team

See Also

Related classes MIAME-class, ExpressionSet-class. Derived classes MIAME-class.

Examples

# Create a new class
MyData <- setClass("MyData", contains="MIAxE")
MyData()

# MIAxE objects cannot be instantiated directly
try(new("MIAxE"))

Description

Assign values to names in an environment.

Usage

multiassign(x, value, envir = parent.frame(), inherits=FALSE)

Arguments

Details

The pos argument can specify the environment in which to assign the object in any of several ways: as an integer (the position in the search list); as the character string name of an element in the search list; or as an environment (including using sys.frame to access the currently active function calls). The envir argument is an alternative way to specify an environment, but is primarily there for back compatibility.

If value is missing and x has names then the values in each element of x are assigned to the names of x.

Value

This function is invoked for its side effect, which is assigning the values to the variables in x. If no envir is specified, then the assignment takes place in the currently active environment.

If inherits is TRUE, enclosing environments of the supplied environment are searched until the variable x is encountered. The value is then assigned in the environment in which the variable is encountered. If the symbol is not encountered then assignment takes place in the user's workspace (the global environment).

If inherits is FALSE, assignment takes place in the initial frame of envir.

Examples

#-- Create objects  'r1', 'r2', ... 'r6' --
nam <- paste("r",1:6, sep=".")

multiassign(nam, 11:16)
ls(pat="^r..$")

#assign the values in y to variables with the names from y

y<-list(a=4,d=mean,c="aaa")
multiassign(y)

Description

Container for high-throughput assays and experimental metadata. MutliSet is derived from eSet-class. MultiSet differs from ExpressionSet-class because MultiSet can contain any element(s) in assayData (ExpressionSet must have an element named exprs).

Extends

Directly extends class eSet.

Creating Objects

new('MultiSet', phenoData = [AnnotatedDataFrame], experimentData = [MIAME], annotation = [character], protocolData = [AnnotatedDataFrame], ...)

updateOldESet(oldESet,"MultiSet")

MultiSet instances are usually created through new("MultiSet", ...). The ... arguments to new are matrices of expression data (with features corresponding to rows and samples to columns), phenoData, experimentData, annotation, and protocolData. phenoData, experimentData, annotation, and protocolData can be missing, in which case they are assigned default values.

updateOldESet will take a serialized instance (e.g., saved to a disk file with save object created with earlier definitions of the eSet-class, and update the object to MultiSet. Warnings are issued when direct translation is not possible; incorrectly created oldESet instances may not be updated.

Slots

Inherited from eSet:

assayData:

Contains zero or more matrices with equal dimensions, and with column number equal to nrow(phenoData). Each matrix in assayData has rows representing features (e.g., reporters) and columns representing samples. Class:AssayData-class

phenoData:

See eSet-class

experimentData:

See eSet-class

annotation:

See eSet-class

protocolData:

See eSet-class

Methods

Class-specific methods: none

Derived from eSet-class:

updateObject(object, ..., verbose=FALSE)

Update instance to current version, if necessary. See updateObject and eSet

isCurrent(object)

Determine whether version of object is current. See isCurrent

isVersioned(object)

Determine whether object contains a 'version' string describing its structure . See isVersioned

sampleNames(MultiSet) and sampleNames(MultiSet)<-:

See eSet-class

featureNames(MultiSet), featureNames(MultiSet, value)<-:

See eSet-class

dims(MultiSet):

See eSet-class

phenoData(MultiSet), phenoData(MultiSet,value)<-:

See eSet-class

varLabels(MultiSet), varLabels(MultiSet, value)<-:

See eSet-class

varMetadata(MultiSet), varMetadata(MultiSet,value)<-:

See eSet-class

pData(MultiSet), pData(MultiSet,value)<-:

See eSet-class

varMetadata(MultiSet), varMetadata(MultiSet,value)

See eSet-class

experimentData(MultiSet),experimentData(MultiSet,value)<-:

See eSet-class

pubMedIds(MultiSet), pubMedIds(MultiSet,value)

See eSet-class

abstract(MultiSet):

See eSet-class

annotation(MultiSet), annotation(MultiSet,value)<-

See eSet-class

protocolData(MultiSet), protocolData(MultiSet,value)<-

See eSet-class

combine(MultiSet,MultiSet):

See eSet-class

storageMode(eSet), storageMode(eSet,character)<-:

See eSet-class

Standard generic methods:

initialize(MultiSet):

Object instantiation, used by new; not to be called directly by the user.

validObject(MultiSet):

Validity-checking method, ensuring that all elements of assayData are matricies with equal dimensions.

as(eSet,MultiSet):

Coerce the eSet portion of an object to MultiSet.

show(MultiSet)

See eSet-class

dim(MultiSet), ncol

See eSet-class

MultiSet[(index):

See eSet-class

MultiSet$, MultiSet$<-

See eSet-class

Author(s)

Biocore team

See Also

eSet-class, ExpressionSet-class

Examples

# create an instance of ExpressionSet
new("MultiSet")

Description

Container for high-throughput assays and experimental meta-data. Data are from experiments where a single ‘chip’ contains several (more than 1) different ‘channels’. All channels on a chip have the same set of‘features’. An experiment consists of a collection of several N-channel chips; each chip is a ‘sample’.

An NChannelSet provides a way to coordinate assay data (expression values) with phenotype information and references to chip annotation data; it extends the eSet class.

An NChannelSet allows channels to be extracted (using the channels method, mentioned below), and subsets of features or samples to be selected (using [<features>, <samples>]). Selection and subsetting occur so that relevant phenotypic data is maintained by the selection or subset.

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls of the form NChannelSet( assayData, phenoData, ...). See the examples below.

Slots

assayData:

Object of class AssayData, usually an environment containing matrices of identical size. Each matrix represents a single channel. Columns in each matrix correspond to samples, rows to features. Once created, NChannelSet manages coordination of samples and channels.

phenoData:

Object of class AnnotatedDataFrame.

The data component of the AnnotatedDataFrame is data.frame with number of rows equal to the number of samples. Columns of the data component correspond to measured covariates.

The varMetadata component consists of mandatory columns labelDescription (providing a textual description of each column label in the data component) and channel. The channel of varMetadata is a factor, with levels equal to the names of the assayData channels, plus the special symbol _ALL_. The channel column is used to indicate which channel(s) the corresponding column in the data component of AnnotatedDataFrame correspond; the _ALL_ symbol indicates that the data column is applicable to all channels. varMetadata may contain additional columns with arbitrary information.

Once created, NChannelSet coordinates selection and subsetting of channels in phenoData.

featureData:

Object of class AnnotatedDataFrame, used to contain feature data that is unique to this experiment; feature-level descriptions common to a particular chip are usually referenced through the annotation slot.

experimentData:

Object of class MIAME containing descriptions of the experiment.

annotation:

Object of class "character". Usually a length-1 character string identifying the chip technology used during the experiment. The annotation string is used to retrieve information about features, e.g., using the annotation package.

protocolData:

Object of class "character". A character vector identifying the dates the samples were scanned during the experiment.

.__classVersion__:

Object of class Versions, containing automatically created information about the class definition Biobase package version, and other information about the user system at the time the instance was created. See classVersion and updateObject for examples of use.

Extends

Class "eSet", directly. Class "VersionedBiobase", by class "eSet", distance 2. Class "Versioned", by class "eSet", distance 3.

Methods

Methods with class-specific functionality:

channel(object, name, ...)

signature(object="NChannelSet", name="character"). Return an ExperessionSet created from the channel and corresponding phenotype of argument name. name must have length 1. Arguments ... are rarely used, but are passed to the ExpressionSet constructor, for instance to influence storage.mode.

channelNames(object), channelNames(object) <- value

signature(object = "NChannelSet"). Obtain, reorder, or rename channels contained in object. See channelNames.

selectChannels(object, names, ...

signature(object = "NChannelSet", names = "character"). Create a new NChannelSet from object, containing only channels in names. The ... is not used by this method.

object[features, samples]

signature(object = "NChannelSet", features = "ANY", samples = "ANY"). Create a new NChannelSet from object, containing only elements matching features and samples; either index may be missing, or a character, numeric, or logical vector.

sampleNames(object) <- value

signature(object = "NChannelSet", value = "list") assign each (named) element of value to the sampleNames of the correspondingly named elements of assayData in object.

Methods with functionality derived from eSet: annotation, annotation<-, assayData, assayData<-, classVersion, classVersion<-, dim, dims, experimentData, experimentData<-, featureData, featureData<-, phenoData, phenoData<-, protocolData, protocolData<-, pubMedIds, pubMedIds<-, sampleNames, sampleNames<-, storageMode, storageMode<-, varMetadata, varMetadata<-, isCurrent, isVersioned, updateObject.

Additional methods: coerce (‘as’, to convert between objects, if possible), initialize (used internally for creating objects), show (invoked automatically when the object is displayed to the screen)

Author(s)

Martin Morgan <[email protected]>

See Also

eSet, ExpressionSet.

Examples

## An empty NChannelSet
obj <- NChannelSet()

## An NChannelSet with two channels (R, G) and no phenotypic data
obj <- NChannelSet(R=matrix(0,10,5), G=matrix(0,10,5))

## An NChannelSet with two channels and channel-specific phenoData
R <- matrix(0, 10, 3, dimnames=list(NULL, LETTERS[1:3]))
G <- matrix(1, 10, 3, dimnames=list(NULL, LETTERS[1:3]))
assayData <- assayDataNew(R=R, G=G)
data <- data.frame(ChannelRData=numeric(ncol(R)),
                   ChannelGData=numeric(ncol(R)),
                   ChannelRAndG=numeric(ncol(R)))
varMetadata <- data.frame(labelDescription=c(
                            "R-specific phenoData",
                            "G-specific phenoData",
                            "Both channel phenoData"),
                          channel=factor(c("R", "G", "_ALL_")))
phenoData <- AnnotatedDataFrame(data=data, varMetadata=varMetadata)
obj <- NChannelSet(assayData=assayData, phenoData=phenoData)
obj

## G channel as NChannelSet
selectChannels(obj, "G")

## G channel as ExpressionSet
channel(obj, "G")

## Samples "A" and "C"
obj[,c("A", "C")]

Description

Generates an informational message that corresponds to its argument(s). Similar to warning() except prefaced by "Note:" instead of "Warning message:".

Usage

note(...)

Arguments

Details

This function essentially cat()'s the created string to the screen. It is intended for messages to the user that are deemed to be 'informational', as opposed to warnings, etc.

Author(s)

Jeff Gentry

See Also

warning,stop

Examples

note("This is an example of a note")

Description

These generic functions access notes (unstructured descriptive data) associated eSet-class.

notes(<ExpressionSet>) <- <character> is unusual, in that the character vector is appended to the list of notes; use notes(<ExpressionSet>) <- <list> to entirely replace the list.

Usage

notes(object)
notes(object) <- value

Arguments

Value

notes returns a list.

Author(s)

Biocore

See Also

ExpressionSet-class, SnpSet-class

Description

Displays the specified PDF file.

Usage

openPDF(file, bg=TRUE)

Arguments

Details

Currently this function works on Windows and Unix platforms. Under Windows, whatever program is associated with the file extension will be used. Under Unix, the function will use the program named in the option "pdfviewer" (see help(options) for information on how this is set.)

The bg argument is only interpreted on Unix.

Value

This function is executed for its side effects. The specified PDF file is opened in the PDF viewer and TRUE is returned.

Author(s)

Jeff Gentry

Examples

## Not run: openPDF("annotate.pdf")

Description

Using the data returned by vignette this function provides a simple easy to use interface for opening vignettes.

Usage

openVignette(package=NULL)

Arguments

Details

If package is NULL then all packages are scanned for vignettes. The list of vignettes is presented to the user via the menu command. The user may select one of the vignettes to be opened in a PDF viewer.

Value

No value is returned; this function is run entirely for the side effect of opening the pdf document in the PDF viewer.

Author(s)

R. Gentleman

See Also

vignette, openPDF, menu, getPkgVigs

Examples

if( interactive() )
    openVignette("Biobase")

Description

Will report the version number of a requested installed package

Usage

package.version(pkg, lib.loc = NULL)

Arguments

Details

This function is a convenience wrapper around package.description, and will report simply the version number of the requested package. If the package does not exist or if the DESCRIPTION file can not be read, then an error will be thrown.

Value

A character string reporting the version number.

Author(s)

Jeff Gentry

See Also

package.description

Examples

package.version("Biobase")

Description

These generic functions access the phenotypic data (e.g., covariates) and meta-data (e.g., descriptions of covariates) associated with an experiment.

Usage

phenoData(object)
phenoData(object) <- value
varLabels(object)
varLabels(object) <- value
varMetadata(object)
varMetadata(object) <- value
pData(object)
pData(object) <- value

Arguments

Value

phenoData returns an object containing information on both variable values and variable meta-data. varLabels returns a character vector of measured variables. pData returns a data frame with samples as rows, variables as columns. varMetadata returns a data frame with variable names as rows, description tags (e.g., unit of measurement) as columns.

Author(s)

Biocore

See Also

eSet-class, ExpressionSet-class, SnpSet-class

Description

This generic function handles methods for adding and retrieving protocol metadata for the samples in eSets.

Usage

protocolData(object)
protocolData(object) <- value

Arguments

Value

protocolData(object) returns an AnnotatedDataFrame containing the protocol metadata for the samples.

Author(s)

Biocore

See Also

phenoData, AnnotatedDataFrame-class, eSet-class, ExpressionSet-class, SnpSet-class

Description

Create an instance of class AnnotatedDataFrame by reading a file, or save an AnnotatedDataFrame to a file.

Usage

read.AnnotatedDataFrame(filename, path,
     sep = "\t", header = TRUE, quote = "", stringsAsFactors = FALSE, 
     row.names = 1L,
     varMetadata.char="#",
     widget = getOption("BioC")$Base$use.widgets,
     sampleNames = character(0), ...) 
write.AnnotatedDataFrame(x, file="", varMetadata.char="#", ...,
     append=FALSE, fileEncoding="")

Arguments

.

Details

The function read.table is used to read pData. The argument varMetadata.char is passed on to that function as its argument comment.char. Lines beginning with varMetadata.char are expected to contain further information on the column headers of pData. The format is of the form: # variable: textual explanation of the variable, units, measurement method, etc. (assuming that # is the value of varMetadata.char). See also examples.

write.AnnotatedDataFrame outputs varLabels and varMetadata(x)$labelDescription as commented header lines, and pData(x) as a with write.table.

Value

read.AnnotatedDataFrame: An instance of class AnnotatedDataFrame

write.AnnotatedDataFrame: NULL, invisibly.

Author(s)

Martin Morgan <[email protected]> and Wolfgang Huber, based on read.phenoData (a precursor of read.AnnotatedDataFrame) by Rafael A. Irizarry.

See Also

AnnotatedDataFrame for additional methods, read.table for details of reading in phenotypic data

Examples

exampleFile = system.file("extdata", "pData.txt", package="Biobase")

adf <- read.AnnotatedDataFrame(exampleFile)
adf
head(pData(adf))
head(noquote(readLines(exampleFile)), 11)

write.AnnotatedDataFrame(adf)           # write to console by default

Description

Reads MIAME information from a file or using a widget.

Usage

read.MIAME(filename = NULL, widget = getOption("BioC")$Base$use.widgets, ...)

Arguments

Details

Notice that the MIAME class tries to cover the MIAME entries that are not covered by other classes in Bioconductor. Namely, experimental design, samples, hybridizations, normalization controls, and pre-processing information.

The function scan is used to read. The file must be a flat file with the different entries for the instance of MIAME class separated by carriage returns. The order should be: name, lab, contact, title, abstract, and url.

Alternatively a widget can be used.

Value

An object of class MIAME.

Author(s)

Rafael Irizarry <[email protected]>

See Also

MIAME,tkMIAME

Examples

miame <- read.MIAME(widget=FALSE) ##creates an empty instance
show(miame)

Description

Create an instance of class ExpressionSet by reading data from files. ‘widget’ functionality is not implemented for readExpressionSet.

Usage

readExpressionSet(exprsFile,
      phenoDataFile,
      experimentDataFile,
      notesFile,
      path,
      annotation,
      ## arguments to read.* methods 
      exprsArgs=list(sep=sep, header=header, row.names=row.names,
        quote=quote, ...),
      phenoDataArgs=list(sep=sep, header=header, row.names=row.names,
        quote=quote, stringsAsFactors=stringsAsFactors, ...),
      experimentDataArgs=list(sep=sep, header=header,
        row.names=row.names, quote=quote,
        stringsAsFactors=stringsAsFactors, ...),
      sep = "\t", header = TRUE, quote = "", stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
      row.names = 1L,
      ## widget
      widget = getOption("BioC")$Base$use.widgets,
      ...)

Arguments

Details

Expression values are read using the read.table function. Phenotypic data are read using the read.AnnotatedDataFrame function. Experiment data are read using the read.MIAME function. Notes are read using the readLines function. The return value must be a valid ExpressionSet. Only the exprsFile argument is required.

Value

An instance of the ExpressionSet class.

Author(s)

Martin Morgan <[email protected]>

See Also

ExpressionSet for additional methods.

Examples

exprsFile = system.file("extdata", "exprsData.txt", package="Biobase")
phenoFile = system.file("extdata", "pData.txt", package="Biobase")

## Read ExpressionSet with appropriate parameters
obj = readExpressionSet(exprsFile, phenoFile, sep = "\t", header=TRUE)
obj

Description

The reporter object is a 500 by 1 data frame. The rows represent the 500 probe IDs in the geneData data. The values in reporter are the predefined probe types for the probes. reporter is used in conjunction with the geneData object and its associates.

Usage

data(reporter)

Format

A 500 by 1 data frame

Details

There are 10 predefined probe types:

• AFFX- Quality Control (QC)

• _f_ SequenceFamily

• _g_ CommonGroups

• _s_ SimilarityConstraint

• _r_ RulesDropped

• _i_ Incomplete

• _b_ AmbiguousProbeSet

• _l_ LongProbeSet

• _at AntiSenseTarget

• _st SenseTarget

Source

Affymetrix GeneChip Expression Analysis Data Analysis Fundamentals (http://www.affymetrix.com/Auth/support/downloads/manuals/data_analysis_fundamentals_manual.pdf)

Examples

data(reporter)
## maybe str(reporter) ; plot(reporter) ...

Description

Given a list with names x and values in a set y this function returns a list with names in y and values in x.

Usage

reverseSplit(inList)

Arguments

Details

First the list is unrolled to provide a two long vectors, names are repeated, once for each of their values. Then the names are split by the values.

This turns out to be useful for inverting mappings between one set of identifiers and an other.

Value

A list with length equal to the number of distinct values in the input list and values from the names of the input list.

Author(s)

R. Gentleman

See Also

split

Examples

l1 = list(a=1:4, b=c(2,3), d=c(4,5))
 reverseSplit(l1)

Description

Calculates the median for each row in a matrix.

Usage

rowMedians(x, na.rm=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

Details

The implementation of rowMedians() is optimized for both speed and memory. To avoid coercing to doubles (and hence memory allocation), there is a special implementation for integer matrices. That is, if x is an integer matrix, then rowMedians(as.double(x)) would require three times the memory of rowMedians(x), but all this is avoided.

Value

Returns a numeric vector of length N.

Missing values

Missing values are excluded before calculating the medians.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

See Also

See rowMeans() in colSums().

Examples

set.seed(1)
x <- rnorm(n=234*543)
x[sample(1:length(x), size=0.1*length(x))] <- NA
dim(x) <- c(234,543)
y1 <- rowMedians(x, na.rm=TRUE)
y2 <- apply(x, MARGIN=1, FUN=median, na.rm=TRUE)
stopifnot(all.equal(y1, y2))

x <- cbind(x1=3, x2=c(4:1, 2:5))
stopifnot(all.equal(rowMeans(x), rowMedians(x)))

Description

This function computes the requested quantile for each row of a matrix, or of an ExpressionSet.

Usage

rowQ(imat, which)
rowMax(imat)
rowMin(imat)

Arguments

Details

rowMax and rowMin simply call rowQ with the appropriate argument set.

The argument which takes values between 1, for the minimum per row, and ncol(imat), for the maximum per row.

Value

A vector of length equal to the number of rows of the input matrix containing the requested quantiles.

Author(s)

R. Gentleman

See Also

rowMedians. rowMeans() in colSums().

Examples

data(sample.ExpressionSet)
 rowMin(sample.ExpressionSet)
 rowQ(sample.ExpressionSet, 4)

Description

These classes represent scalar quantities, such as a string or a number and are useful because they provide their own validity checking. The classes ScalarCharacter, ScalarLogical, ScalarInteger, and ScalarNumeric all extend their respective base vector types and can be used interchangeably (except they should always have length one).

The mkScalar factory function provides a convenient way of creating Scalar<type> objects (see the examples section below).

Usage

mkScalar(obj)

Arguments

Author(s)

Seth Falcon

Examples

v <- list(mkScalar("a single string"),
          mkScalar(1),
          mkScalar(1L),
          mkScalar(TRUE))
sapply(v, class)
sapply(v, length)

Description

This generic function extracts specific elements from an object, returning a instance of that object.

Usage

selectChannels(object, names, ...)

Arguments

Value

Instance of class object.

Author(s)

Biocore

Examples

obj <- NChannelSet(R=matrix(runif(100), 20, 5), G=matrix(runif(100), 20, 5))

## G channel as NChannelSet
selectChannels(obj, "G")

Description

Extract the first and last several elements of a vector for concise rendering; insert ellipses to indicate elided elements. This function is primarily meant for developer rather than end-user use.

Usage

selectSome(obj, maxToShow=5)

Arguments

Details

This function can be used in 'show' methods to give users exemplars of the tokens used in a vector. For example, an ExpressionSet built from a yeast experiment might have features enumerated using systematic gene names (e.g., YPR181C) or standard gene names (e.g., SEC23). The show method for ExpressionSet uses selectSome to alert the user to the tokens used, and thereby to indicate what vocabulary must be understood to work with the feature names.

Value

A string vector with at most maxToShow plus 1 elements, where an ellipsis ("...") is included to indicate incompleteness of the excerpt.

Author(s)

Martin Morgan <[email protected]>

Examples

selectSome(1:20)

Description

These generic functions access the calls and call probabilities stored in objects.

Usage

snpCall(object, ...)
snpCall(object, ...) <- value
snpCallProbability(object, ...)
snpCallProbability(object, ...) <- value

Arguments

Value

snpCall returns a matrix of SNP calls; snpCallProbability returns the corresponding matrix of standard errors, when available.

Author(s)

Biocore

See Also

SnpSet-class

Description

Container for high-throughput assays and experimental metadata. SnpSet class is derived from eSet, and requires matrices call, callProbability as assay data members.

Extends

Directly extends class eSet.

Creating Objects

new('SnpSet', phenoData = [AnnotatedDataFrame], experimentData = [MIAME], annotation = [character], protocolData = [AnnotatedDataFrame], call = [matrix], callProbability = [matrix], ...)

SnpSet instances are usually created through new("SnpSet", ...). Usually the arguments to new include call (a matrix of genotypic calls, with features (SNPs) corresponding to rows and samples to columns), phenoData, experimentData, annotation, and protocolData. phenoData, experimentData, annotation and protocolData can be missing, in which case they are assigned default values.

Slots

Inherited from eSet:

assayData:

Contains matrices with equal dimensions, and with column number equal to nrow(phenoData). assayData must contain a matrix call with rows representing features (e.g., SNPs) and columns representing samples, and a matrix callProbability describing the certainty of the call. The content of call and callProbability are not enforced by the class. Additional matrices of identical size may also be included in assayData. Class:AssayData-class

phenoData:

See eSet

experimentData:

See eSet

annotation:

See eSet

protocolData:

See eSet

Methods

Class-specific methods:

snpCall(SnpSet), snpCall(SnpSet,matrix)<-

Access and set elements named call in the AssayData slot.

exprs(SnpSet), exprs(SnpSet,matrix)<-

Synonym for snpCall.

snpCallProbability(SnpSet), snpCallProbability<-(SnpSet,matrix)<-

Access and set elements named callProbability in the AssayData slot.

Derived from eSet:

updateObject(object, ..., verbose=FALSE)

Update instance to current version, if necessary. See updateObject and eSet

isCurrent(object)

Determine whether version of object is current. See isCurrent

isVersioned(object)

Determine whether object contains a 'version' string describing its structure . See isVersioned

sampleNames(SnpSet) and sampleNames(SnpSet)<-:

See eSet

featureNames(SnpSet), featureNames(SnpSet, value)<-:

See eSet

dims(SnpSet):

See eSet

phenoData(SnpSet), phenoData(SnpSet,value)<-:

See eSet

varLabels(SnpSet), varLabels(SnpSet, value)<-:

See eSet

varMetadata(SnpSet), varMetadata(SnpSet,value)<-:

See eSet

pData(SnpSet), pData(SnpSet,value)<-:

See eSet

varMetadata(SnpSet), varMetadata(SnpSet,value)

See eSet

experimentData(SnpSet),experimentData(SnpSet,value)<-:

See eSet

pubMedIds(SnpSet), pubMedIds(SnpSet,value)

See eSet

abstract(SnpSet):

See eSet

annotation(SnpSet), annotation(SnpSet,value)<-

See eSet

protocolData(SnpSet), protocolData(SnpSet,value)<-

See eSet

combine(SnpSet,SnpSet):

See eSet

storageMode(eSet), storageMode(eSet,character)<-:

See eSet

Standard generic methods:

initialize(SnpSet):

Object instantiation, used by new; not to be called directly by the user.

validObject(SnpSet):

Validity-checking method, ensuring that call and callProbability is a member of assayData. checkValidity(SnpSet) imposes this validity check, and the validity checks of eSet.

show(SnpSet)

See eSet

dim(SnpSet), ncol

See eSet

SnpSet[(index):

See eSet

SnpSet$, SnpSet$<-

See eSet

Author(s)

Martin Morgan, V.J. Carey, after initial design by R. Gentleman

See Also

eSet, ExpressionSet

Description

These generic functions report or change the storage mode used for assayData.

Usage

storageMode(object)
storageMode(object) <- value

Arguments

Value

storageMode returns a length-1 character vector

Author(s)

Biocore

See Also

AssayData-class, eSet-class ExpressionSet-class, SnpSet-class

Description

Inserts line breaks (collapse) into input character strings. The main intention of this function is to prepare long strings for printing, so the output is not wider than width.

Usage

strbreak(x, width=getOption("width"), exdent=2, collapse="\n")

Arguments

Author(s)

Wolfgang Huber http://www.ebi.ac.uk/huber

See Also

strwrap, substring

Examples

longString = paste(rep(LETTERS, 10), collapse="", sep="")
cat(strbreak(longString))

Description

Given a list of lists, this function can be used to extract a named element from each sublist.

Usage

subListExtract(L, name, simplify = FALSE, keep.names = TRUE)

Arguments

Details

This function is implemented in C and is intended to be faster than calling lapply or sapply.

Value

If simplify=FALSE, a list will be returned having the same length as L, but with each element containing the element named name from the corresponding inner list of L.

When simplify=TRUE, an atomic vector will be returned containing the extracted elements. If any of the inner list elements do not have length one or cannot be put inside an atomic vector, an error will be raised.

Author(s)

Seth Falcon

Examples

list_size = 500000
innerL = list(foo="foo", bar="bar")
L = rep(list(innerL), list_size)

system.time({j0 = sapply(L, function(x) x$foo)})
system.time({j1 = subListExtract(L, "foo", simplify=TRUE)})
stopifnot(all.equal(j0, j1))

LS = L[1:3]
names(LS) = LETTERS[1:3]
subListExtract(LS, "bar", simplify=TRUE)
subListExtract(LS, "bar", simplify=FALSE)
subListExtract(LS, "bar", simplify=TRUE, keep.names=FALSE)

Description

This function will attempt to determine if the user has internet connectivity to the Bioconductor website. This is useful in many situations dealing with code that uses automated downloads and other such things.

Usage

testBioCConnection()

Value

TRUE if a connection is possible, FALSE if not.

Author(s)

Jeff Gentry

Examples

z <- testBioCConnection()

Description

The updateObjectTo generic function returns an instance of object updated to the class definition of template.

It requires that the class of the returned object be the same as the class of the template argument, and that the object is valid. Usually, updating proceeds by modifying slots in template with information from object, and returning template. Use as to coerce an object from one type to another; updateObjectTo might be useful to update a virtual superclass. By default, updateObjectTo has the following behavior:

updateObjectTo(ANY-object,ANY-template)

Attempt as(ANY-object,class(ANY-template)).

Usage

updateObjectTo(object, template, ..., verbose=FALSE)

Arguments

Value

updateObjectTo returns a valid instance of template.

Author(s)

Biocore team

See Also

updateObject, Versions-class

Description

This function updates eSet objects created in previous versions of Biobase to the current class structure. Warnings indicate when coercions change how data in the from object are altered. If the from object was not a valid object of the original eSet class, then updateOldESet may fail.

Usage

updateOldESet(from, toClass, ...)

Arguments

Value

Valid object of class toClass.

Author(s)

Biocore

See Also

eSet-class, ExpressionSet-class, SnpSet-class

Examples

## Not run: 
updateOldESet(oldESet, "ExpressionSet")

## End(Not run)

Description

This function will output a given message and seek a response from the user, repeating the message until the input is from a valid set provided by the code.

Usage

userQuery(msg, allowed = c("y", "n"), default = "n", case.sensitive = FALSE)

Arguments

Value

The input from the user

Author(s)

Jeff Gentry

Description

This function facilitates constructing messages during S4 class validation, and is meant for developer rather than end-user use.

Usage

validMsg(msg, result)

Arguments

Details

This function appends result to msg, but only if result is a character vector.

Author(s)

Martin Morgan <[email protected]>

Examples

msg <- NULL
validMsg(msg, FALSE) # still NULL
msg <- validMsg(msg, "one")
validMsg(msg, "two")

Description

Use this class as a ‘superclass’ for classes requiring information about versions.