R: The abstract GenericTabularFile class

GenericTabularFile {R.filesets} | R Documentation

## The abstract GenericTabularFile class

### Description

Package: R.filesets
Class GenericTabularFile

`Object`
`~~|`
`~~+--``FullNameInterface`
`~~~~~~~|`
`~~~~~~~+--``GenericDataFile`
`~~~~~~~~~~~~|`
`~~~~~~~~~~~~+--``ColumnNamesInterface`
`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|`
`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+--``GenericTabularFile`

Directly known subclasses:
TabularTextFile

public abstract static class GenericTabularFile
extends ColumnNamesInterface

A TabularTextFile is an object refering to a tabular text file on a file system containing data in a tabular format. Methods for reading all or a subset of the tabular data exist.

### Usage

    GenericTabularFile(..., .verify=TRUE, verbose=FALSE)

### Arguments

`...` | Arguments passed to `GenericDataFile`.
`.verify, verbose` | (Internal only) If `TRUE`, the file is verified while the object is instantiated by the constructor. The verbose argument is passed to the verifier function.

### Fields and Methods

Methods:

| `dim` | -
| `extractMatrix` | -
| `head` | -
| `nbrOfColumns` | -
| `nbrOfRows` | -
| `readColumns` | -
| `readDataFrame` | -
| `tail` | -
| `writeColumnsToFiles` | -

Methods inherited from ColumnNamesInterface:
appendColumnNamesTranslator, appendColumnNamesTranslatorByNULL, appendColumnNamesTranslatorBycharacter, appendColumnNamesTranslatorByfunction, appendColumnNamesTranslatorBylist, clearColumnNamesTranslator, clearListOfColumnNamesTranslators, getColumnNames, getColumnNamesTranslator, getDefaultColumnNames, getListOfColumnNamesTranslators, nbrOfColumns, setColumnNames, setColumnNamesTranslator, setListOfColumnNamesTranslators, updateColumnNames

Methods inherited from GenericDataFile:
as.character, clone, compareChecksum, copyTo, equals, fromFile, getAttribute, getAttributes, getChecksum, getChecksumFile, getCreatedOn, getDefaultFullName, getExtension, getExtensionPattern, getFileSize, getFileType, getFilename, getFilenameExtension, getLastAccessedOn, getLastModifiedOn, getOutputExtension, getPath, getPathname, gunzip, gzip, hasBeenModified, is.na, isFile, isGzipped, linkTo, readChecksum, renameTo, renameToUpperCaseExt, setAttribute, setAttributes, setAttributesBy, setAttributesByTags, setExtensionPattern, testAttributes, validate, validateChecksum, writeChecksum

Methods inherited from FullNameInterface:
appendFullNameTranslator, appendFullNameTranslatorByNULL, appendFullNameTranslatorByTabularTextFile, appendFullNameTranslatorByTabularTextFileSet, appendFullNameTranslatorBycharacter, appendFullNameTranslatorBydata.frame, appendFullNameTranslatorByfunction, appendFullNameTranslatorBylist, clearFullNameTranslator, clearListOfFullNameTranslators, getDefaultFullName, getFullName, getFullNameTranslator, getListOfFullNameTranslators, getName, getTags, hasTag, hasTags, resetFullName, setFullName, setFullNameTranslator, setListOfFullNameTranslators, setName, setTags, updateFullName

Methods inherited from Object:
$, $<-, [[, [[<-, as.character, attach, attachLocally, clearCache, clearLookupCache, clone, detach, equals, extend, finalize, getEnvironment, getFieldModifier, getFieldModifiers, getFields, getInstantiationTime, getStaticInstance, hasField, hashCode, ll, load, names, objectSize, print, save

### Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

### See Also

An object of this class is typically part of an `GenericTabularFileSet`.

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