shareData/getData/clearData {kit}

Share Data between R Sessions

Description

Experimental functions that enable the user to share a R object between 2 R sessions.

Usage

  shareData(data, map_name, verbose=FALSE)
  getData(map_name, verbose=FALSE)
  clearData(x, verbose=FALSE)

Arguments

data

A R object like a vector or a data.frame.

map_name

A character. A name for the memory map location where to store the data.

x

An external pointer like the one returned by function shareData.

verbose

A logical value TRUE or FALSE to provide or not information to the user.

Value

shareData returns a external pointer. getData returns an R object stored in the memory location map_name. clearData returns TRUE or FALSE depending on whether the data have been cleared in memory.

Author(s)

Morgan Jacob

Examples

# In R session 1: share data in memory
# > x = shareData(mtcars,"share1")
#
# In R session 2: get data from session 1
# > getData("share1")
#
# In R session 1: clear data in memory
# > clearData(x)