| allocate.AromaTabularBinaryFile {aroma.core} | R Documentation |
Creates an AromaTabularBinaryFile of a certain dimension and data column types.
AromaTabularBinaryFile$allocate(filename, path=NULL, nbrOfRows, types, sizes, signeds=TRUE, comment=NULL, overwrite=FALSE, skip=FALSE, footer=list(), ..., verbose=FALSE)
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. |
Returns a AromaTabularBinaryFile object.
Valid data types are currently "integer" and "double".
Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)
For more information see AromaTabularBinaryFile.