datashield.build.login.data.frame.o: Builds a dataframe to login to datashield

In datashield/opal: Opal R and Datashield utils

Description

This function generates a valid data frame, that can be used to login to some data computers (i.e. opal servers). The data frame models a double-entry table. The columns are defined as server, url, user, password and table name. Each row holds the information in relation to one data computer. The values for each column are passed to the function as arguments.

Usage

datashield.build.login.data.frame.o(data.computers.name,
  data.computers.url, data.computers.table.name, users.id, users.password)

Arguments

data.computers.name	A vector of characters listing all the names of the data computers
data.computers.url	A vector of characters listing each data computer HTTP address. The format is https://[TCPIP address or host name][:port]
data.computers.table.name	A vector of characters listing the name of the table stored in a data computer
users.id	A vector of characters listing a valid user name to log on on each server.
users.password	A vector of characters listing the password for each user to log in to a data computer.

Value

a data frame formatter in this manner: (server,url,user,password,table). If the arguments are not correct. Then a data.frame with no rows is created.

The expactactions are as follow: Expectation no 0: the return value is a data.frame Expectation no 1: the number of columns is equal 5. Expectation no 2: the number of rows is equal to the number of servers Expectation no 3: the number of rows is equal to 0, if the length of url, user, or table is smaller than the length of server Expectation no 4: the number of row is 0, if any of the urls does not start with http

Author(s)

Patricia Ryser-Welch

datashield/opal documentation built on May 14, 2019, 7:53 p.m.