allocate.AromaTabularBinaryFile {aroma.core}R Documentation

Creates an AromaTabularBinaryFile

Description

Creates an AromaTabularBinaryFile of a certain dimension and data column types.

Usage

AromaTabularBinaryFile$allocate(filename, path=NULL, nbrOfRows, types, sizes, signeds=TRUE, comment=NULL, overwrite=FALSE, skip=FALSE, footer=list(), ..., verbose=FALSE)

Arguments

filename The filename of the new file.
path The path where to store the new file.
nbrOfRows An integer specifying the number of rows to allocate.
types A character vector specifying the data type of each column. The length specifies the number of columns to allocate.
sizes An integer vector of values in {1,2,4,8} specifying the size of each column (data type).
signeds An logical vector specifying if the data types in each column is signed or not.
comment An optional character string written to the file header.
overwrite If TRUE, an existing file is overwritten, otherwise not.
skip If TRUE and overwrite=TRUE, any existing file is returned as is.
footer An optional list of attributes written (as character strings) to the file footer.
... Not used.
verbose Verbose.

Value

Returns a AromaTabularBinaryFile object.

Data types

Valid data types are currently "integer" and "double".

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)

See Also

For more information see AromaTabularBinaryFile.


[Package aroma.core version 1.4.0 Index]