selectSome {Biobase}R Documentation

extract aspects of a vector for concise rendering

Description

extract aspects of a vector for concise rendering

Usage

selectSome(obj, maxToShow=5)

Arguments

obj vector
maxToShow number of elements to render

Details

This function can be used in 'show' methods to give users exemplars of the tokens used in a vector. For example, an ExpressionSet built from a yeast experiment might have features enumerated using systematic gene names (e.g., YPR181C) or standard gene names (e.g., SEC23). The show method for ExpressionSet uses selectSome to alert the user to the tokens used, and thereby to indicate what vocabulary must be understood to work with the feature names.

Value

A string vector with at most maxToShow plus 1 elements, where an ellipsis ("...") is included to indicate incompleteness of the excerpt.

Author(s)

Martin Morgan <mtmorgan@fhcrc.org>

Examples

selectSome(1:20)

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