allocate.AromaTabularBinaryFile: Creates an AromaTabularBinaryFile

In aroma.core: Core Methods and Classes Used by 'aroma.*' Packages Part of the Aroma Framework

Creates an AromaTabularBinaryFile

Description

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

Usage

## Static method (use this):
## AromaTabularBinaryFile$allocate(filename, path=NULL, nbrOfRows, types, sizes,
##   signeds=TRUE, defaults=NA, comment=NULL, overwrite=FALSE, skip=FALSE, footer=list(),
##   ..., verbose=FALSE)

## Don't use the below:
## S3 method for class 'AromaTabularBinaryFile'
allocate(static, filename, path=NULL, nbrOfRows, types, sizes, signeds=TRUE, defaults=NA,
  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.
defaults	An optional list (or vector) containing default values for each column.
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

See Also

For more information see AromaTabularBinaryFile.

aroma.core documentation built on Aug. 19, 2025, 1:13 a.m.