put.attr.gdsn: Add an attribute into a GDS node

In gdsfmt: R Interface to CoreArray Genomic Data Structure (GDS) files

Description

Add an attribute to a GDS node.

Usage

put.attr.gdsn(node, name, val=NULL)

Arguments

node	an object of class gdsn.class, a GDS node
name	the name of an attribute
val	the value of an attribute

Details

Missing values are allowed in a numerical attribute, but not allowed for characters or logical values. Missing characters are converted to "NA", and missing logical values are converted to FALSE.

Author(s)

Xiuwen Zheng

References

http://github.com/zhengxwen/gdsfmt

See Also

get.attr.gdsn, delete.attr.gdsn

Examples

# cteate a GDS file
f <- createfn.gds("test.gds")

node <- add.gdsn(f, "int", val=1:10000)
put.attr.gdsn(node, "missing.value", 10000)
put.attr.gdsn(node, "one.value", 1L)
put.attr.gdsn(node, "string", c("ABCDEF", "THIS"))
put.attr.gdsn(node, "bool", c(TRUE, TRUE, FALSE))

f
get.attr.gdsn(node)

delete.attr.gdsn(node, "one.value")
get.attr.gdsn(node)

closefn.gds(f)


# delete the temporary file
unlink("test.gds", force=TRUE)

gdsfmt documentation built on May 2, 2019, 4:41 p.m.