Coerces an R object into a list
asListDS(x.name, newobj)the object specified by the <newobj> argument (or its default name
<x.name>.mat) which is written to the serverside.
In addition, two validity messages are returned. The first confirms an output
object has been created, the second states its class. The way that as.list
coerces objects to list depends on the class of the object, but in general the class of the output object should usually be 'list'
the name of the input object to be coerced to class
data.matrix. Must be specified in inverted commas. But this argument is
usually specified directly by <x.name> argument of the clientside function
ds.asList
is the object hard assigned '<<-' to be the output of the function written to the serverside
Amadou Gaye, Paul Burton for DataSHIELD Development Team
Unlike most other class coercing functions this is
an aggregate function rather than an assign function. This
is because the datashield.assign function in the data repository deals specially with
a created object (newobj) if it is of class list. Reconfiguring the
function as an aggregate function works around this problem.
This aggregate function is based on the native R function as.list
and so additional information can be found in the help for as.list