R.utils (version 1.29.8)

getOption.Options: Gets an option

Description

Gets an option in the options tree structure or return a default value.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Options':
getOption(this, pathname=NULL, defaultValue=NULL, ...)

Arguments

pathname

A single or a vector of character strings specifying the paths to the options to be queried. By default the complete options structure i

defaultValue

The default value to be returned, if option is missing. If multiple options are queried at the same times, multiple default values may be specified as a vector or a

...

Not used.

Value

• If a single option is queried, a single value is returned. If a vector of options are queried, a list of values are returned. For non-existing options, the default value is returned.

See Also

*hasOption(). *setOption(). For more information see Options.