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Writes points from a data stream DSD object to a file or a connection.

Usage

DST_WriteStream(file, append = FALSE, ...)

# S3 method for class 'DST_WriteStream'
close_stream(dsd, ...)

Arguments

file

A file name or a R connection to be written to.

append

Append the data to an existing file.

...

further arguments are passed on to write_stream(). Note that close is always FALSE and cannot be specified.

dsd

a DSD_WriteStream object with an open connection.

Details

Note: header = TRUE is not supported for files. The header would be added for every call for update.

Author

Michael Hahsler

Examples

set.seed(1500)

stream <- DSD_Gaussians(k = 3, d = 2)
writer <- DST_WriteStream(file = "data.txt", info = TRUE)

update(writer, stream, n = 2)
readLines("data.txt")
#> [1] "0.876254652435868,0.522936851845779,2"
#> [2] "0.812427512321428,0.262452294398377,1"
update(writer, stream, n = 3)
readLines("data.txt")
#> [1] "0.876254652435868,0.522936851845779,2"
#> [2] "0.812427512321428,0.262452294398377,1"
#> [3] "0.753271337087053,0.245009458201735,1"
#> [4] "0.858143359987905,0.568894154264572,2"
#> [5] "0.429813150521751,0.267543195698126,3"

# clean up
close_stream(writer)

file.remove("data.txt")
#> [1] TRUE