This is exactly what I am looking for.
Thanks all for your help!
Best,
Yuan
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Hervé Pagès <hpa...@fhcrc.org> wrote:
> Hi Yuan,
>
>
> On 01/10/2014 06:49 PM, Yuan Luo wrote:
>
>> How to find the package of a class given classname?
>> For example, there is a class called GAlignments, I want to do something
>> like
>> attr("GAlignments", "package") that gives you the package where the class
>> is defined? But of course, attr("GAlignments", "package") won't work...
>>
>
> You didn't say whether you wanted to be able to do this
> programmatically.
>
> If that's the case maybe you're lucky and the package where the class
> is defined is already attached to your session. In that case:
>
>
> > attr(class(new("GAlignments")), "package")
> [1] "GenomicRanges"
>
> Otherwise, if the package in question is installed but not attached
> you can still do:
>
> ??`GAlignments-class`
>
> If the package is not installed but you have a vague idea that this
> could be a Bioconductor container, then search the bioconductor
> mailing list:
>
> http://bioconductor.org/help/mailing-list/
>
> If that still doesn't give you the answer, then you're welcome to ask
> on the list.
>
> Cheers,
> H.
>
> PS: If you're using the current devel version of BioC (requires R devel)
> the GAlignments class has moved to the new GenomicAlignments package.
>
>
>> Thanks for any help!
>> Yuan
>>
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