Creates an AromaTabularBinaryFile of a certain dimension and data column types.
## 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 AromaTabularBinaryFile
allocate(static, filename, path=NULL, nbrOfRows, types, sizes, signeds=TRUE, defaults=NA,
comment=NULL, overwrite=FALSE, skip=FALSE, footer=list(), ..., verbose=FALSE)
The filename of the new file.
The path where to store the new file.
An integer
specifying the number of rows to allocate.
An optional character
string written to the file header.
If TRUE
, an existing file is overwritten, otherwise not.
If TRUE
and overwrite=TRUE
, any existing file is
returned as is.
An optional list
of attributes written (as character
strings) to the file footer.
Not used.
Returns a AromaTabularBinaryFile
object.
For more information see AromaTabularBinaryFile
.