Stage a DataFrameFactor object — saveObject,DataFrameFactor-method • alabaster.base

Stage a DataFrameFactor object, a generalization of the base factor for DataFrame levels.

# S4 method for class 'DataFrameFactor'
saveObject(x, path, ...)

Arguments

x: A DataFrameFactor object.
path: String containing the path to a directory in which to save x.
...: Further arguments, to pass to internal altSaveObject calls.

Value

x is saved to an on-disk representation inside path.

Author

Aaron Lun

Examples

library(S4Vectors)
df <- DataFrame(X=LETTERS[1:5], Y=1:5)
out <- DataFrameFactor(df[sample(5, 100, replace=TRUE),,drop=FALSE])

tmp <- tempfile()
saveObject(out, tmp)
list.files(tmp, recursive=TRUE)
#> [1] "OBJECT"                  "contents.h5"            
#> [3] "levels/OBJECT"           "levels/basic_columns.h5"