It seems worthy of discussion. My outlook, surely naive, is that SummarizedExperiment is Vector if it can answer all these meaningfully
> methods(class="Vector") [1] != [ [<- %in% [5] < <= == > [9] >= aggregate anyNA append [13] as.character as.complex as.data.frame as.env [17] as.integer as.list as.logical as.numeric [21] as.raw by coerce compare [25] countOverlaps duplicated elementMetadata elementMetadata<- [29] eval expand expand.grid extractROWS [33] findOverlaps head high2low length [37] lengths match mcols mcols<- [41] metadata metadata<- mstack NROW [45] overlapsAny parallelSlotNames rank relist [49] rename rep rep.int replaceROWS [53] rev ROWNAMES seqlevelsInUse shiftApply [57] showAsCell sort split split<- [61] subset subsetByOverlaps table tail [65] tapply unique values values<- [69] window window<- with xtabs [73] xtfrm it seems to me that it would be most natural to regard it as a Vector of features. But I don't know if I give the right principle or if it should be detached from Vector for some reason. On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Michael Lawrence <lawrence.mich...@gene.com > wrote: > It totally makes sense for a matrix to be a vector. But it's a whole > other thing for a SummarizedExperiment to be a Vector. It could be > made to work, but I sort of doubt there is much consistency right now. > Perhaps I'm wrong. > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Vincent Carey > <st...@channing.harvard.edu> wrote: > > perhaps the answer has to reflect > > > >> is(matrix(), "vector") > > > > [1] TRUE > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Michael Lawrence > > <lawrence.mich...@gene.com> wrote: > >> > >> Saw that SummarizedExperiment(0) derives from Vector. What exactly is > >> it a Vector of? Features? Measurements? It is rectangular, like a > >> matrix, but does it support unidimensional subscripts? Sort of > >> confusing. > >> > >> Thanks for clarifying, > >> Michael > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel