refTable-constructor {Rgb}

refTable class constructor

Description

This function returns a new refTable object from various arguments.

Notice the new() alternative can be used to produce an empty object, setting only the fields not the content.

Usage

  refTable(..., row.names, warn = TRUE)

Arguments

...

A data.frame, a list or a set of named vectors to use as columns. For list and vectors, row.names will be used as row names if provided.

row.names

Character vector, the names of the rows for list or vector input.

warn

Single logical value, to be passed to the refTable check method.

Value

An object of class refTable.

Author(s)

Sylvain Mareschal

See Also

refTable-class

Examples

  # From vectors
  tab <- refTable(colA=1:5, colB=letters[1:5])
  print(tab$extract(3,))
  
  # From list (recycling)
  columns <- list(number=1, letters=LETTERS)
  tab <- refTable(columns)
  print(tab$extract())
  
  # data.frame conversion
  dataFrame <- data.frame(colA=1:5, colB=letters[1:5])
  tab <- refTable(dataFrame)
  print(tab$extract())