mongo.oid.from.string: Create a mongo.oid object ftom a string

In jonkatz2/rmongodb: R-MongoDB driver

Description

Create from a 24-character hex string a mongo.oid object representing a MongoDB Object ID.

Usage

mongo.oid.from.string(hexstr)

Arguments

hexstr

(string) 24 hex characters representing the OID. Note that although an error is thrown if the length is not 24, no error is thrown if the characters are not hex digits; you'll get zero bits for the invalid digits.

Details

See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Object+IDs

Value

A mongo.oid object constructed from hexstr.

See Also

mongo.oid,
mongo.oid.create,
as.character.mongo.oid,
mongo.oid.to.string,
mongo.bson.buffer.append,
mongo.bson.buffer.append.oid,
mongo.bson.buffer.append.list,
mongo.bson.buffer,
mongo.bson.

Examples

buf <- mongo.bson.buffer.create()
oid <- mongo.oid.from.string("ABCD1234EFAB5678CDEF9012")
mongo.bson.buffer.append(buf, "_id", oid)
b <- mongo.bson.from.buffer(buf)

jonkatz2/rmongodb documentation built on May 19, 2019, 7:30 p.m.