Annotated-class           package:IRanges           R Documentation

Annotated class

Description:

     The virtual class 'Annotated' is used to standardize the storage
     of metadata with a subclass.

Details:

     The 'Annotated' class supports the storage of global metadata in a
     subclass. This is done through the 'metadata' slot that stores a
     list object.

Accessors:

     In the following code snippets, 'x' is an 'Annotated' object.


      'metadata(x)', 'metadata(x) <- value': Get or set the list
          holding arbitrary R objects as annotations. May be, and often
          is, empty.


Author(s):

     P. Aboyoun

See Also:

     'Sequence' for example implementations

