| repDS {dsBase} | R Documentation |
An assign function which creates a repetitive sequence by repeating an identified scalar, or specified elements of a vector or list. This is analogous to the rep function in native R. The sequence is written as a new object to the serverside
repDS(
x1.transmit,
times.transmit,
length.out.transmit,
each.transmit,
x1.includes.characters,
source.x1,
source.times,
source.length.out,
source.each
)
x1.transmit |
This argument determines the input scalar, vector or list. for behaviour see help for ds.rep and "details from native R help for <rep>" (see above). This parameter is usually fully defined by the argument <x1> in the call to ds.rep that itself calls repDS. |
times.transmit |
This argument determines the number of replications and the pattern of these replications of the input scalar/vector to construct the output repetitive sequence. For behaviour see help for ds.rep and "details from native R help for <rep>" (see above). This parameter is usually fully defined by the argument <times> in the call to ds.rep that itself calls repDS. |
length.out.transmit |
This argument fixes the length of the output repetive sequence vector For behaviour see help for ds.rep and "details from native R help for <rep>" (see above). This parameter is usually fully defined by the argument <length.out> in the call to ds.rep that itself calls repDS. |
each.transmit |
This argument specifies the number of replications of individual elements rather than replications of the full sequence. For behaviour see help for ds.rep and "details from native R help for <rep>" (see above). This parameter is usually fully defined by the argument <each> in the call to ds.rep that itself calls repDS. |
x1.includes.characters |
Boolean parameter determining whether to coerce the final output sequence to numeric. Defaults to FALSE and output is coerced to numeric. For detailed behaviour see help for ds.rep. This parameter is usually fully defined by the argument <x1.includes.characters> in the call to ds.rep that itself calls repDS. |
source.x1 |
This defines the source of the scalar or vector defined by the <x1> argument. Four character strings are allowed: "clientside" or "c" and serverside or "s". For behaviour see help for ds.rep and "details from native R help for <rep>" (see above). This parameter is usually fully defined by the argument <source.x1> in the call to ds.rep that itself calls repDS. |
source.times |
see "param source.x1" This parameter is usually fully defined by the argument <source.times> in the call to ds.rep that itself calls repDS. |
source.length.out |
see "param source.x1" This parameter is usually fully defined by the argument <source.length.out> in the call to ds.rep that itself calls repDS. |
source.each |
see "param source.x1" This parameter is usually fully defined by the argument <source.each> in the call to ds.rep that itself calls repDS. |
Further details can be found in the help details for on ds.rep and the following aspects of the help for the function rep in native R also apply (as explained in more detail with exceptions identified in help for ds.rep):
In addition a Details from R help for <rep>:
The default behaviour is as if the call was rep(x, times = 1, length.out = NA, each = 1) Normally just one of the additional arguments is specified, but if 'each' is specified with either of the other two, its replication is performed first, and then that is followed by the replication implied by times or length.out.
If times consists of a single integer, the result consists of the whole input repeated this many times. If times is a vector of the same length as x (after replication by each), the result consists of x[1] repeated times[1] times, x[2] repeated times[2] times and so on. ***Note exception 1 above.
length.out may be given in place of times, in which case x is repeated as many times as is necessary to create a vector of this length. If both are given, length.out takes priority and times is ignored. ***Note exception 3 above.
Non-integer values of times will be truncated towards zero. If times is a computed quantity it is prudent to add a small fuzz or use round. And analogously for each.
the vector containing the specified repetitive sequence and write to the output object defined by the <newobj> argument (or default name seq.vect) which is written to the serverside in each source. In addition, two validity messages are returned indicating whether <newobj> has been created in each data source and if so whether it is in a valid form. If its form is not valid in at least one study - e.g. because a disclosure trap was tripped and creation of the full output object was blocked - ds.matrixDiag also returns any studysideMessages that can explain the error in creating the full output object. As well as appearing on the screen at run time,if you wish to see the relevant studysideMessages at a later date you can use the ds.message function. If you type ds.message("newobj") it will print out the relevant studysideMessage from any datasource in which there was an error in creating <newobj> and a studysideMessage was saved. If there was no error and <newobj> was created without problems no studysideMessage will have been saved and ds.message("newobj") will return the message: "ALL OK: there are no studysideMessage(s) on this datasource".
Paul Burton for DataSHIELD Development Team, 14/10/2019