ProbeSet-class {affy} | R Documentation

## Class ProbeSet

### Description

A simple class that contains the PM and MM data for a probe set from one or more samples

### Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by applying the method `probeset` to instances of AffyBatch.

### Slots

`id`:
  Object of class `"character"` containing the probeset ID
`pm`:
  Object of class `"matrix"` containing the PM intensities. Columns represent samples and rows the different probes.
`mm`:
  Object of class `"matrix"` containing the MM intensities

### Methods

colnames
  `signature(x = "ProbeSet")`: the column names of the `pm` matrices which are the sample names
express.summary.stat
  `signature(x = "ProbeSet", pmcorrect = "character", summary = "character")`: applies a summary statistic to the probe set.
sampleNames
  `signature(object = "ProbeSet")`: the column names of the `pm` matrices which are the sample names

### Note

More details are cotained in the vignette

### See Also

`probeset`, `AffyBatch-class`

### Examples

    data(affybatch.example)
    ps <- probeset(affybatch.example,geneNames(affybatch.example)[1:2])
    names(ps)
    print(ps[[1]])

[Package affy version 1.16.0 Index]