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aroma.core (version 2.14.0)

AromaTabularBinaryFile$allocate: Creates an AromaTabularBinaryFile

Description

Creates an AromaTabularBinaryFile of a certain dimension and data column types.

Usage

## Static method (use this):
## AromaTabularBinaryFile$allocate(filename, path=NULL, nbrOfRows, types, sizes,
##   signeds=TRUE, defaults=NA, comment=NULL, overwrite=FALSE, skip=FALSE, footer=list(),
##   ..., verbose=FALSE)
## Don't use the below:
## S3 method for class 'AromaTabularBinaryFile':
allocate(static, filename, path=NULL, nbrOfRows, types, sizes, signeds=TRUE, defaults=NA,
  comment=NULL, overwrite=FALSE, skip=FALSE, footer=list(), ..., verbose=FALSE)

Arguments

filename
The filename of the new file.
path
The path where to store the new file.
nbrOfRows
An integer specifying the number of rows to allocate.
types
A character vector specifying the data type of each column. The length specifies the number of columns to allocate.
sizes
An integer vector of values in {1,2,4,8} specifying the size of each column (data type).
signeds
An logical vector specifying if the data types in each column is signed or not.
defaults
An optional list (or vector) containing default values for each column.
comment
An optional character string written to the file header.
overwrite
If TRUE, an existing file is overwritten, otherwise not.
skip
If TRUE and overwrite=TRUE, any existing file is returned as is.
footer
An optional list of attributes written (as character strings) to the file footer.
...
Not used.
verbose
Verbose.

Value

Data types

Valid data types are currently "integer" and "double".

See Also

For more information see AromaTabularBinaryFile.