Big Data Character Vector

DESCRIPTION:

Create or test for big data objects representing character vectors.

This function requires the bigdata library section to be loaded.

USAGE:

bdCharacter(length = 0)
as.bdCharacter(x)
is.bdCharacter(x)

REQUIRED ARGUMENTS:

length
integer giving the length of the returned object.
x
A vector, bdVector, or single-column bdFrame.

Any S-PLUS object for is.bdCharacter.

VALUE:

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.

SEE ALSO:

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EXAMPLES:

bdCharacter(5)

as.bdCharacter(letters)

is.bdCharacter(letters)  # FALSE

is.bdCharacter( as.bdCharacter(letters) ) # TRUE