R.filesets (version 2.15.1)

GenericTabularFile: The abstract GenericTabularFile class

Description

Package: R.filesets
Class GenericTabularFile

Object
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~~+--FullNameInterface
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~~~~~~~+--GenericDataFile
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~~~~~~~~~~~~+--ColumnNamesInterface
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+--GenericTabularFile

Directly known subclasses:
TabularTextFile

public abstract static class GenericTabularFile
extends ColumnNamesInterface

A TabularTextFile is an object referring to a tabular text file on a file system containing data in a tabular format. Methods for reading all or a subset of the tabular data exist.

Usage

GenericTabularFile(..., .verify=TRUE, verbose=FALSE)

Arguments

...

Arguments passed to GenericDataFile.

.verify, verbose

(Internal only) If TRUE, the file is verified while the object is instantiated by the constructor. The verbose argument is passed to the verifier function.

Fields and Methods

Methods:

	dim	-
	extractMatrix	-
	head	-
	nbrOfColumns	-
	nbrOfRows	-
	readColumns	-
	readDataFrame	-
	tail	-
	writeColumnsToFiles	-

Methods inherited from ColumnNamesInterface:
appendColumnNamesTranslator, appendColumnNamesTranslatorByNULL, appendColumnNamesTranslatorBycharacter, appendColumnNamesTranslatorByfunction, appendColumnNamesTranslatorBylist, clearColumnNamesTranslator, clearListOfColumnNamesTranslators, getColumnNames, getColumnNamesTranslator, getDefaultColumnNames, getListOfColumnNamesTranslators, nbrOfColumns, setColumnNames, setColumnNamesTranslator, setListOfColumnNamesTranslators, updateColumnNames

Methods inherited from GenericDataFile:
as.character, clone, compareChecksum, copyTo, equals, fromFile, getAttribute, getAttributes, getChecksum, getChecksumFile, getCreatedOn, getDefaultFullName, getExtension, getExtensionPattern, getFileSize, getFileType, getFilename, getFilenameExtension, getLastAccessedOn, getLastModifiedOn, getOutputExtension, getPath, getPathname, gunzip, gzip, hasBeenModified, is.na, isFile, isGzipped, linkTo, readChecksum, renameTo, renameToUpperCaseExt, setAttribute, setAttributes, setAttributesBy, setAttributesByTags, setExtensionPattern, testAttributes, validate, validateChecksum, writeChecksum

Methods inherited from FullNameInterface:
appendFullNameTranslator, appendFullNameTranslatorByNULL, appendFullNameTranslatorByTabularTextFile, appendFullNameTranslatorByTabularTextFileSet, appendFullNameTranslatorBycharacter, appendFullNameTranslatorBydata.frame, appendFullNameTranslatorByfunction, appendFullNameTranslatorBylist, clearFullNameTranslator, clearListOfFullNameTranslators, getDefaultFullName, getFullName, getFullNameTranslator, getListOfFullNameTranslators, getName, getTags, hasTag, hasTags, resetFullName, setFullName, setFullNameTranslator, setListOfFullNameTranslators, setName, setTags, updateFullName

Methods inherited from Object:
$, $<-, [[, [[<-, as.character, attach, attachLocally, clearCache, clearLookupCache, clone, detach, equals, extend, finalize, getEnvironment, getFieldModifier, getFieldModifiers, getFields, getInstantiationTime, getStaticInstance, hasField, hashCode, ll, load, names, objectSize, print, save

Author

Henrik Bengtsson

See Also

An object of this class is typically part of an GenericTabularFileSet.