[Bioc-devel] what is SummarizedExperiment a Vector of?

[Michael Lawrence]

It totally makes sense for a matrix to be a vector. But it's a whole
other thing for a SummarizedExperiment to be a Vector. It could be
made to work, but I sort of doubt there is much consistency right now.
Perhaps I'm wrong.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Vincent Carey
<stvjc at channing.harvard.edu> wrote:
> perhaps the answer has to reflect
>
>> is(matrix(), "vector")
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> [1] TRUE
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> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Michael Lawrence
> <lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
>>
>> Saw that SummarizedExperiment(0) derives from Vector. What exactly is
>> it a Vector of? Features? Measurements? It is rectangular, like a
>> matrix, but does it support unidimensional subscripts? Sort of
>> confusing.
>>
>> Thanks for clarifying,
>> Michael
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