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Coerce to a data frame
Description
Generic function to coerce to a data frame, if possible.
NOTE: This man page is for the as.data.frame
S4 generic function defined in the BiocGenerics package.
See ?base::as.data.frame
for the default method
(defined in the base package).
Bioconductor packages can define specific methods for objects
not supported by the default method.
Usage
as.data.frame(x, row.names=NULL, optional=FALSE, ...)
Arguments
x |
The object to coerce. |
row.names , optional , ... |
See |
Value
An ordinary data frame.
See ?base::as.data.frame
for the value returned
by the default method.
Specific methods defined in Bioconductor packages should behave as consistently as possible with the default method.
See Also
-
base::as.data.frame
for the defaultas.data.frame
method. -
toTable
for an alternative toas.data.frame
. -
showMethods
for displaying a summary of the methods defined for a given generic function. -
selectMethod
for getting the definition of a specific method. -
as.data.frame,DataFrame-method in the S4Vectors package, and as.data.frame,IntegerRanges-method in the IRanges package, for examples of specific
as.data.frame
methods (defined for DataFrame and IntegerRanges objects, respectively). -
BiocGenerics for a summary of all the generics defined in the BiocGenerics package.
Examples
as.data.frame # note the dispatch on the 'x' arg only
showMethods("as.data.frame")
selectMethod("as.data.frame", "ANY") # the default method