[BioC] Evaluating differentiall expressed genes

[Seth Falcon]

On  7 Dec 2005, naomi at stat.psu.edu wrote:
> I have not used this particular Bioconductor package.  But I have
> learned in general how to deal with the various types of objects
> that the Bioconductor developers have created for us.

These are good suggestions and I use this approach all the time to get
a feel for code I'm not familiar with.

> class(myobject)
>
> tells you the class of "myobject"
>
> ?myclass
>
> should give the documentation of what the class "myclass" consists
> of

For S4 classes, it will sometimes be necessary to use:

class ? myclass

Another thing to do is to scan the index of functions:

help(package = "mypackage")

+ seth