| append {BiocGenerics} | R Documentation |
Append (or insert) elements to (in) a vector-like object.
NOTE: This man page is for the append S4 generic function
defined in the BiocGenerics package.
See ?base::append for the default method
(defined in the base package).
Bioconductor packages can define specific methods for objects
(typically vector-like or data-frame-like) not supported by the
default method.
append(x, values, after=length(x))
x |
The vector-like object to be modified. |
values |
The vector-like object containing the values to be appended to |
after |
A subscript, after which the values are to be appended. |
See ?base::append for the value returned by the
default method.
Specific methods defined in Bioconductor packages will typically
return an object of the same class as x and of length
length(x) + length(values).
base::append for the default append
method.
showMethods for displaying a summary of the
methods defined for a given generic function.
selectMethod for getting the definition of
a specific method.
append,Vector,Vector-method in the S4Vectors
package for an example of a specific append method (defined
for Vector objects).
BiocGenerics for a summary of all the generics defined in the BiocGenerics package.
append # note the dispatch on the 'x' and 'values' args only
showMethods("append")
selectMethod("append", c("ANY", "ANY")) # the default method