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