LoadCollection: Loading and saving CommunityCollection objects

In quicklizard99/cheddar: Analysis and Visualisation of Ecological Communities

Loading and saving CommunityCollection objects

Description

LoadCollection and SaveCollection are functions for loading and saving codeCommunityCollection objects to text files.

Usage

LoadCollection(dir, ...)
SaveCollection(collection, dir, ...)

Arguments

collection	an object of class CommunityCollection.
dir	a directory.
...	other values to LoadCommunity or SaveCommunity.

Details

The Community objects in collection are saved to a directory named communities inside dir. The order of the collection is not saved. Any existing data in dir is ignored.

Value

LoadCollection returns a new CommunityCollection.

Author(s)

Lawrence Hudson

See Also

CommunityCollection, OrderCollection, LoadCommunity, SaveCommunity

Examples

data(pHWebs)
temp.path <- tempfile()
SaveCollection(pHWebs, temp.path)
pHWebs.loaded <- LoadCollection(temp.path)
pHWebs.loaded <- OrderCollection(pHWebs.loaded, 'pH')
unlink(temp.path, recursive=TRUE)
identical(pHWebs, pHWebs.loaded)    # TRUE

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