This function requires the bigdata library section to be loaded.
bdCharacter(length = 0) as.bdCharacter(x) is.bdCharacter(x)
bdVector,
or single-column
bdFrame.
Any S-PLUS object for
is.bdCharacter.
bdCharacter and
as.bdCharacter
return an object of class
bdCharacter, the big data analog of a
character vector.
is.bdCharacter returns
TRUE if
x
inherits from
bdCharacter, and
FALSE otherwise.
bdCharacter(5) as.bdCharacter(letters) is.bdCharacter(letters) # FALSE is.bdCharacter( as.bdCharacter(letters) ) # TRUE