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I used rma from the oligo package to normalize CEL files, returning an object of class ExpressionSet. How do I access the actual expression data?
> data = read.celfiles(names)
> data2 = oligo::rma(data)
class(data2)
[1] "ExpressionSet"
attr(,"package")
[1] "Biobase"
> data3 = as.matrix(data2)
Error in as.vector(data) :
no method for coercing this S4 class to a vector
The class of your object which the rma function returns is an ExpressionSet which is a standardized data structure in Bioconductor/R from the Biobase package.
It stores both expression (a numeric matrix) data as well as column- and row annotation data.
You have to use the getter function exprs() to access the expression data slot, so exprs(data2) which is then of class matrix, link to documentation.
oligo::rmadocumentation? Can you clarify why this doesn't make sense to you? $\endgroup$