cheddar (version 0.1-639)

LoadCollection: Loading and saving CommunityCollection objects

Description

LoadCollection and SaveCollection are functions for loading and saving CommunityCollection objects to text files.

Usage

LoadCollection(dir, ...)
SaveCollection(collection, dir, ...)

Value

LoadCollection returns a new CommunityCollection.

Arguments

collection

an object of class CommunityCollection.

dir

a directory.

...

other values to LoadCommunity or SaveCommunity.

Author

Lawrence Hudson

Details

The Community objects in collection are saved to a directory named communities inside dir. The order of the collection is not saved. Any existing data in dir is ignored.

See Also

CommunityCollection, OrderCollection, LoadCommunity, SaveCommunity

Examples

data(pHWebs)
temp.path <- tempfile()
SaveCollection(pHWebs, temp.path)
pHWebs.loaded <- LoadCollection(temp.path)
pHWebs.loaded <- OrderCollection(pHWebs.loaded, 'pH')
unlink(temp.path, recursive=TRUE)
identical(pHWebs, pHWebs.loaded)    # TRUE