dataFrameDS {dsBase}

R Documentation

dataFrameDS called by ds.dataFrame

Description

The serverside function that creates a data frame from its elemental components. That is: pre-existing data frames; single variables; and/or matrices

Usage

dataFrameDS(
  vectors = NULL,
  r.names = NULL,
  ch.rows = FALSE,
  ch.names = TRUE,
  clnames = NULL,
  strAsFactors = TRUE,
  completeCases = FALSE
)

Arguments

vectors	a list which contains the elemental components to combine. These correspond to the vector of character strings specified in argument x of the clientside function ds.dataFrame()
r.names	NULL or a character vector specifying the names of the rows. Default NULL.
ch.rows	logical, if TRUE then the rows are checked for consistency of length and names. Default FALSE.
ch.names	logical, if TRUE then the names of the variables in the data frame are checked to ensure that they are syntactically valid variable names and are not duplicated. Default TRUE. In fact, the clientside function ensures no duplicated names can be presented to dataFrameDS but this argument is kept to check for other forms of syntactic validity.
clnames	a list of characters, the column names of the output data frame. These are generated by the clientside function from the names of vectors, and the column names of data.frames and matrices being combined in producing the output data.frame
strAsFactors	logical, if TRUE determines whether character vectors should automatically be converted to factors? Default TRUE.
completeCases	logical. If TRUE indicates that only complete cases should be included: any rows with missing values in any component will be excluded. Default FALSE.

Details

A data frame is a list of variables all with the same number of rows with unique row names, which is of class 'data.frame'. ds.dataFrame will create a data frame by combining a series of elemental components which may be pre-existing data.frames, matrices or variables. A critical requirement is that the length of all component variables, and the number of rows of the component data.frames or matrices must all be the same. The output data.frame will then have this same number of rows. The serverside function dataFrameDS() calls the native R function data.frame() and several of its arguments are precisely the same as for data.frame(). In consequence, additional information can be sought from the help() for data.frame().

Value

a dataframe composed of the specified elemental components will be created on the serverside and named according to the <newobj> argument of the clientside function ds.dataFrame()

Author(s)

DataSHIELD Development Team

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