Motivated by the discussion thread from November (https://stat.ethz.ch/ pipermail/bioc-devel/2014-November/006686.html) the Bioconductor core team is planning on making changes to the SummarizedExperiment class. Our end goal is to allow the @rowData slot to become more flexible and hold either a DataFrame or GRanges type object.
To this end we have currently deprecated the current rowData accessor in favor of a rowRanges accessor. This change has resulted in a few broken builds in devel, which we are in the process of fixing now. We will contact any package authors directly if needed for this migration. The rowData accessor will be deprecated in this release, however eventually the plan is to re-purpose this function to serve as an accessor for DataFrame data on the rows. Please let us know if you have any questions with the above and if you need any assistance with the transition. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel