Read metadata and mcols for a Annotated or Vector object, respectively.
This is typically used inside loading functions for concrete subclasses.
readMetadata(x, metadata.path, mcols.path, ...)String containing a path to a directory, itself containing an on-disk representation of a base R list to be used as the metadata.
Alternatively NULL to skip loading.
String containing a path to a directory, itself containing an on-disk representation of a DataFrame to be used as the mcols.
Alternatively NULL to skip loading.
Further arguments to be passed to altReadObject.
x is returned, possibly with mcols and metadata added to it.
saveMetadata, which does the staging.