HDF5Array-class {HDF5Array} | R Documentation

## HDF5 datasets as array-like objects

### Description

We provide 2 classes for representing an (on-disk) HDF5 dataset as an array-like object in R:

- HDF5Array: A high-level class HDF5Array that extends DelayedArray. All the operations available on DelayedArray objects work on HDF5Array objects.

- HDF5ArraySeed: A low-level class for pointing to an HDF5 dataset. No operation can be performed directly on an HDF5ArraySeed object. It needs to be wrapped in a DelayedArray or HDF5Array object first. An HDF5Array object is just an HDF5ArraySeed object wrapped in a DelayedArray object.

### Usage

    ## Constructor functions:
    HDF5Array(filepath, name, type=NA)
    HDF5ArraySeed(filepath, name, type=NA)

### Arguments

`filepath` | The path (as a single character string) to the HDF5 file where the dataset is located.
`name` | The name of the dataset in the HDF5 file.
`type` | `NA` or the R atomic type (specified as a single string) corresponding to the type of the HDF5 dataset.

### Value

An HDF5Array object for `HDF5Array()`.

An HDF5ArraySeed object for `HDF5ArraySeed()`.

### See Also

- DelayedArray objects.

- DelayedArray-utils for common operations on DelayedArray objects.

- `writeHDF5Array` for writting an array-like object to an HDF5 file.

- HDF5-dump-management for controlling the location of automatically created HDF5 datasets.

- `saveHDF5SummarizedExperiment` and `loadHDF5SummarizedExperiment` in this package (the HDF5Array package) for saving/loading an HDF5-based SummarizedExperiment object to/from disk.

- `h5ls` in the rhdf5 package.

- The rhdf5 package on top of which HDF5Array objects are implemented.

- array objects in base R.

### Examples

    ## ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    ## CONSTRUCTION
    ## ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    library(rhdf5)
    library(h5vcData)

    tally_file <- system.file("extdata", "example.tally.hfs5",
                              package="h5vcData")
    h5ls(tally_file)

    ## Pick up "Coverages" dataset for Human chromosome 16:
    cov0 <- HDF5Array(tally_file, "/ExampleStudy/16/Coverages")
    cov0

    ## ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    ## dim/dimnames
    ## ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    dim(cov0)

    dimnames(cov0)
    dimnames(cov0) <- list(paste0("s", 1:6), c("+", "-"))
    dimnames(cov0)

    ## ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    ## SLICING (A.K.A. SUBSETTING)
    ## ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    cov1 <- cov0[ , , 29000001:29000007]
    cov1

    dim(cov1)
    as.array(cov1)
    stopifnot(identical(dim(as.array(cov1)), dim(cov1)))
    stopifnot(identical(dimnames(as.array(cov1)), dimnames(cov1)))

    cov2 <- cov0[ , "+", 29000001:29000007]
    cov2
    as.matrix(cov2)

    ## ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    ## SummarizedExperiment OBJECTS WITH DELAYED ASSAYS
    ## ---------------------------------------------------------------------

    ## DelayedArray objects can be used inside a SummarizedExperiment object
    ## to hold the assay data and to delay operations on them.

    library(SummarizedExperiment)

    pcov <- cov0[ , 1, ]  # coverage on plus strand
    mcov <- cov0[ , 2, ]  # coverage on minus strand

    nrow(pcov)  # nb of samples
    ncol(pcov)  # length of Human chromosome 16

    ## The convention for a SummarizedExperiment object is to have 1 column
    ## per sample so first we need to transpose 'pcov' and 'mcov':
    pcov <- t(pcov)
    mcov <- t(mcov)
    se <- SummarizedExperiment(list(pcov=pcov, mcov=mcov))
    se
    stopifnot(validObject(se, complete=TRUE))

    ## A GPos object can be used to represent the genomic positions along
    ## the dataset:
    gpos <- GPos(GRanges("16", IRanges(1, nrow(se))))
    gpos
    rowRanges(se) <- gpos
    se
    stopifnot(validObject(se))
    assays(se)$pcov
    assays(se)$mcov

[Package HDF5Array version 1.8.1 Index]