zzz-NetAffxCompatibility-class {AffyCompatible} | R Documentation

## (Auto-generated) classes and methods for navigating NetAffx resources

### Description

These classes and methods facilitate navigation of the NetAffx resource data base. They are R representations of the Affymetrix classes defined in NetAffxAnnotFileList.dtd. The 'show' methods for these classs indicate how objects are to be accessed; details are in the ‘Annotations with NetAffx’ vignette.

The auto-generated classes are discoverable as indicated in the example below.

### 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.

### Author(s)

Martin Morgan <mtmorgan@fhcrc.org>

### See Also

Vignette ‘Annotations with NetAffx’. Affymetrix user login site https://www.affymetrix.com/site/login/login.affx.

`NetAffxResource` for creating and managing the NetAffx data base.

`NetAffxResource` for navigating the data base.

### Examples

    ## defined and auto-generated classes
    getClass("NetAffxCompatibility", where=getNamespace("AffyCompatible"))

    ## slots of an auto-generated class
    getSlots(getClass("AffxNetAffxAnnotFileList",
        where=getNamespace("AffyCompatible")))

    ## Not run:
    example("NetAffxrResource-class")

    ## End(Not run)

[Package AffyCompatible version 1.46.0 Index]