idf_object {eplusr}

Create an IdfObject object.

Description

idf_object() takes a parent Idf object, an object name or class name, and returns a corresponding IdfObject.

Usage

idf_object(parent, object = NULL, class = NULL)

Arguments

parent

An Idf object.

object

A valid object ID (an integer) or name (a string). If NULL and class is not NULL, an empty IdfObject is created with all fields fill with default values if possible. Default: NULL.

class

A valid class name (a string). If object is not NULL, class is used to further specify what class is the target object belongs to. If object is NULL, an empty IdfObject of class is created.

Details

If object is not given, an empty IdfObject of specified class is created, with all field values filled with defaults, if possible. Note that validation is performed when creating, which means that an error may occur if current validate level does not allow empty required fields.

The empty IdfObject is directly added into the parent Idf object. It is recommended to use ⁠$validate()⁠ method in IdfObject to see what kinds of further modifications are needed for those empty fields and use ⁠$set()⁠ method to set field values.

Value

An IdfObject object.

Examples

## Not run: 
model <- read_idf(system.file("extdata/1ZoneUncontrolled.idf", package = "eplusr"))

# get an IdfObject using object ID
idf_object(model, 14)

# get an IdfObject using object name (case-insensitive)
idf_object(model, "zone one")

# `class` argument is useful when there are objects with same name in
# different class
idf_object(model, "zone one", "Zone")

# create a new zone
eplusr_option(validate_level = "draft")
zone <- idf_object(model, class = "Zone")
zone
eplusr_option(validate_level = "final")
zone$validate()

## End(Not run)