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Report the size of an object's slots, largest first.

profile_object_size.Rd

Works on any S4 object or list, not just Seurat objects. It descends into S4 slots and list elements, bounded by max_depth. So a Seurat object, an assay pulled from one (x[["RNA"]]), a DimReduc, or a plain nested list all get the same recursive breakdown.

Usage

profile_object_size(x, max_depth = 3)

Arguments

x

Any object - a Seurat object, a piece pulled from one (an assay via x[["RNA"]], a reduction via x[["pca"]], ...), a plain list, or anything else object.size() accepts.

max_depth

How many levels to descend before reporting a subtree's total size instead of continuing to break it down.

Value

A tibble with one row per slot/element, largest first: path (its position, " > "-separated) and size (human-readable, e.g. "1.2 Mb").

Details

An Assay5's layers slot is itself a list. So layers > counts/layers > data/layers > scale.data are sized separately, not lumped into one layers total.

A matrix, data frame, or atomic vector is neither S4 nor a list. Passing one of these just reports its own size, the same as calling object.size() directly. There is nothing to descend into.