DList {DSL}

Distributed List Class

Description

Functions to construct, coerce, check for, and interact with storage of objects of class "DList".

Usage

DList( ... )
as.DList( x, DStorage = NULL, ... )
is.DList( x )
DL_storage( x )
`DL_storage<-`( x, value )

Arguments

...

objects, possibly named.

x

an object.

DStorage

an object representing the virtual (distributed) storage for storing data. See class "DStorage" for details.

value

the new storage of class DStorage attached to the "DList".

Value

An object of class "DList" or, in case of DL_storage(), an object of class "DStorage".

Examples

## coerce to 'DList' object using a default virtual storage
l <- list( cow = "girl", bull = "boy" )
dl <- as.DList( l )
is.DList( dl )
DL_storage(dl)
## remove DList and garbage collect it
rm(dl)
gc()