createsOutput: Define an output object of a module

In SpaDES.core: Core Utilities for Developing and Running Spatially Explicit Discrete Event Simulation Models

Description

Used to specify an output object's name, class, description and other specifications.

Usage

createsOutput(objectName, objectClass, desc, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'ANY,ANY,ANY'
createsOutput(objectName, objectClass, desc, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'character,character,character'
createsOutput(objectName,
  objectClass, desc, ...)

Arguments

objectName	Character string to define the output object's name.
objectClass	Character string to specify the output object's class.
desc	Text string providing a brief description of the output object.
...	Other specifications of the output object.

Value

A data.frame suitable to be passed to outputObjects in a module's metadata.

Author(s)

Yong Luo

Examples

outputObjects <- dplyr::bind_rows(
  createsOutput(objectName = "outputObject1", objectClass = "character",
                desc = "this is for example"),
  createsOutput(objectName = "outputObject2", objectClass = "numeric",
                desc = "this is for example",
                otherInformation = "I am the second output object")
)

SpaDES.core documentation built on March 19, 2019, 9:04 a.m.