bigmemory (version 4.6.1)

descriptor-class: Class "big.matrix.descriptor"

Description

An object of this class contains necessary and sufficient information to ``attach'' a shared or filebacked big.matrix.

Usage

# S4 method for big.matrix.descriptor
sub.big.matrix(
  x,
  firstRow = 1,
  lastRow = NULL,
  firstCol = 1,
  lastCol = NULL,
  backingpath = NULL
)
# S4 method for character
attach.resource(obj, ...)
# S4 method for big.matrix.descriptor
attach.resource(obj, ...)

Arguments

x

A descriptor object

firstRow

the first row of the submatrix

lastRow

the last row of the submatrix if not NULL

firstCol

the first column of the submatrix

lastCol

of the submatrix if not NULL

backingpath

required path to the filebacked object, if applicable

obj

The filename of the descriptor for a filebacked matrix, assumed to be in the directory specified

...

possibly path which gives the path where the descriptor and/or filebacking can be found.

Objects from the Class

Objects should not be created by calls of the form new("big.matrix.descriptor", ...), but should use the describe function.

Slots

description:

Object of class "list"; details omitted.

Extends

Class "descriptor", directly.

Methods

attach.resource

signature(obj = "big.matrix.descriptor"): ...

sub.big.matrix

signature(x = "big.matrix.descriptor"): ...

Author

John W. Emerson and Michael J. Kane

References

Other types of descriptors are defined in package synchronicity.

See Also

See also attach.big.matrix.

Examples

showClass("big.matrix.descriptor")