importToExpData: Import data to database
In Genominator: Analyze, manage and store genomic data

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) See Also Examples

This function imports data from a data frame to a table in a database.

1 2	importToExpData(df, dbFilename, tablename, overwrite = FALSE, verbose = getOption("verbose"), columns = NULL)

`df`	A data frame containing data to be imported. Must have columns `chr`, `location` and `strand`.
`dbFilename`	The filename of the database to which the data will be imported.
`tablename`	Name of database table to write output data to.
`overwrite`	Logical indicating whether database table referred to in `tablename` argument should be overwritten.
`verbose`	Logical indicating whether details should be printed.
`columns`	Vector of column names of columns to be imported.

Returns an object of class ExpData.

James Bullard bullard@berkeley.edu, Kasper Daniel Hansen khansen@jhsph.edu

See Genominator vignette for more information. See also ExpData-class.

N  <- 10000 # the number of observations. 
df <- data.frame(chr = sample(1:16, size = N, replace = TRUE),
                 location = sample(1:1000, size = N, replace = TRUE),
                 strand = sample(c(1L,-1L), size = N, replace = TRUE))
eDataRaw <- importToExpData(df, dbFilename = tempfile(),
                            tablename = "ex_tbl", overwrite = TRUE)