dot-init: Initialize the environment
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.init

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Initialize the environment

Description

Set a number of defaults for some of the functions. These are:

1) hidden.fields - fields that must show no information (patient identifiers for instance)

2) allowed.functions - supplementary functions allowed in dssDeriveColumn (see the documentation for that function)

3) join.pivot.col - the default column to join (or pivot) by. In the absence of this default the 'by.col' argument in dssJoin and dssPivot becomes mandatory

4) forbidden.options - a number of opal administrative options that are not allowed to be changed by dssSetOption

In order to set/modify any of these options the node administrator must create an .Rprofile file in the rserver conf directory (normally /var/lib/rserver/conf) and populate it with the necessary R commands to set the above options (see example). Then the following line must be added to the file /var/lib/rserver/conf/Rserv.conf:

source /var/lib/rserver/conf/.Rprofile

Usage

.init()

Examples

# content of the /var/lib/rserver/conf/.Rprofile file that adds as.POSIXct among
# the allowed functions in dssDeriveColumn:
options(allowed.functions='as.POSIXct')

sib-swiss/dsSwissKnife documentation built on Nov. 27, 2024, 6:03 p.m.