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Type: Package
Title: A Shared Resource Interface for Bigmemory Project Packages
Version: 0.1.8
Description: A shared resource interface for the bigmemory and synchronicity packages.
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-US
License: LGPL-3 | Apache License 2.0
Enhances: bigmemory
Imports: methods
RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2024-01-10 16:31:18 UTC; mike
Author: Michael J. Kane ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Michael J. Kane <bigmemoryauthors@gmail.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2024-01-10 17:13:09 UTC

Create an Object that Makes Use of a Shared Resource

Description

This generic function should be used to attach to a system-wide shared resource on a computer. It is used by other packages.

Usage

attach.resource(obj, ...)

Arguments

obj

a descriptor object describing the location and type of a shared resource.

...

other information needed for object-specific attaching.

Value

An R object that makes use of a share resource.

Examples

# Create a concrete function.
setMethod(
 "attach.resource", 
 signature(obj = "NULL"),
 function (obj, ...) {
   NULL
 }
)

# Describe it
attach.resource(NULL)

Create a Description of a Shared Resource

Description

This generic function should be used for creating a description of a shared resource and is used in conjunction with attach.resource() to utilize shared resources from an R session.

Usage

describe(x)

Arguments

x

the object to create the descriptor for.

Value

A user-defined description of a shared resource.

See Also

[bigmemory.sri::attach.resource()]

Examples

# Create a concrete function.
setMethod(
 "describe", 
 signature(x = "list"),
 function (x) {
   print(x$value)
 }
)

# Create an object to describe.
tst = list(loc = "in_ram_not_shared", value = "hello world")

# Describe it
describe(tst)

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