Annotated-class {S4Vectors} | 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

The Vector class, which extends Annotated directly.

### Examples

    showClass("Annotated")  # shows (some of) the known subclasses

    ## If the IRanges package was not already loaded, this will show
    ## more subclasses:
    library(IRanges)
    showClass("Annotated")

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