restoreS4Methods: Restore Session Class Definitions

In Sage-Bionetworks/sessionTools: Tools for saving, restoring and teleporting R sessions.

Description

Restores the class definitions from an R binary file to the specified environment.

Usage

restoreS4Methods(file = "session.RData", envir = .GlobalEnv, clean = TRUE, srcEnv)

Arguments

file	path to an R binary file
envir	the environment into which the class definitions should be restored.
clean	boolean indicating whether the environment should be purged of existing class definitions prior to restoring
srcEnv	environment from which to restore generics. if this argument is provided the "file" arguments is ignored.

Value

This method is executed for it's side-effects.

Author(s)

Matthew D. Furia [e-mail]

https://github.com/MattNapsAlot

Examples

## make some methods
setGeneric("foo", def = function(bar) standardGeneric("foo"))
setMethod("foo", definition = function(bar) print(foo))

## save the session
sessionFile <- tempfile(fileext=".rbin")
saveSession(list = ls(), file = sessionFile)

## create an environment where they can be restored
env <- new.env()

## restore the generic
restoreS4Methods(file = sessionFile, envir = env)
getGenerics(env)
findMethods("foo", where=env)

Sage-Bionetworks/sessionTools documentation built on May 9, 2019, 12:13 p.m.