phenoData {Biobase} | R Documentation

## Retrieve information on experimental phenotypes recorded in eSet and ExpressionSet-derived classes.

### Description

These generic functions access the phenotypic data (e.g., covariates) and meta-data (e.g., descriptions of covariates) associated with an experiment.

### Usage

    phenoData(object)
    phenoData(object) <- value
    varLabels(object)
    varLabels(object) <- value
    varMetadata(object)
    varMetadata(object) <- value
    pData(object)
    pData(object) <- value

### Arguments

`object` | Object, possibly derived from `eSet-class` or `AnnotatedDataFrame`.
`value` | Value to be assigned to corresponding object.

### Value

`phenoData` returns an object containing information on both variable values and variable meta-data. `varLabels` returns a character vector of measured variables. `pData` returns a data frame with samples as rows, variables as columns. `varMetadata` returns a data frame with variable names as rows, description tags (e.g., unit of measurement) as columns.

### Author(s)

Biocore

### See Also

`eSet-class`, `ExpressionSet-class`, `SnpSet-class`

[Package Biobase version 2.0.1 Index]