shareData: Share Data between R Sessions

In kit: Data Manipulation Functions Implemented in C

Share Data between R Sessions

Description

Experimental functions that enable the user to share a R object between 2 R sessions.

Usage

  shareData(data, map_name, verbose=FALSE)
  getData(map_name, verbose=FALSE)
  clearData(x, verbose=FALSE)

Arguments

data	A R object like a vector or a data.frame.
map_name	A character. A name for the memory map location where to store the data.
x	An external pointer like the one returned by function shareData.
verbose	A logical value TRUE or FALSE to provide or not information to the user.

Value

shareData returns a external pointer. getData returns an R object stored in the memory location map_name. clearData returns TRUE or FALSE depending on whether the data have been cleared in memory.

Author(s)

Morgan Jacob

Examples

# In R session 1: share data in memory
# > x = shareData(mtcars,"share1")
#
# In R session 2: get data from session 1
# > getData("share1")
#
# In R session 1: clear data in memory
# > clearData(x)

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