Hi Laurent, After discussing it, we see no compelling reason why we can't also support calling as.data.frame() here. So I am adding it to the devel branch. Marc On 04/26/2011 12:31 PM, Laurent Gautier wrote: > Hi Marc, > > Thanks for the answer. > > Since the documentation for the class Bimap is likely the first place > one facing an instance would reach when looking for more information, > would it make sense to mention that toTable() should be used where > flatten() is described (as not much suggests that flatten() is not > exported otherwise). > > Also, is there a particular reason why the method that converts an > instance to a data.frame is called "toTable()" (while > "as.data.frame()" is otherwise an existing R method) ? > > > Best, > > > Laurent > > > On 2011-04-26 20:16, Marc Carlson wrote: >> Hi Laurent, >> >> This documentation is just extra information about how these things >> are internally designed. It is not expected that you will ever need >> to flatten a Bimap (the function is only used internally). The >> description of the Bimaps has a lot of extra technical details that >> might be useful if you needed to make a custom package, but which are >> probably not interesting for most users the rest of the time. >> >> If you were hoping to make a Bimap appear as something more like a >> simple data.frame you might just be looking for toTable(). >> >> >> Hope this helps, >> >> >> Marc >> >> >> On 04/25/2011 10:11 AM, Laurent Gautier wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> The documentation for Bimap (in AnnotationDbi) refers to a generic >>> "flatten()" that does not appear to be exported. >>> >>> Is this by design or is this an oversight ? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> Laurent >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bioconductor mailing list >>> Bioconductor at r-project.org >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >>> Search the archives: >>> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioconductor mailing list >> Bioconductor at r-project.org >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >> Search the archives: >> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > >