The saveRDS() S4 generic and default method

Description

Generic function to write a single R object to a file.

NOTE: This man page is for the saveRDS S4 generic function and default method defined in the BiocGenerics package. See ?base::saveRDS for the corresponding function defined in base R.

Usage

saveRDS(object, file="", ascii=FALSE, version=NULL,
        compress=TRUE, refhook=NULL)

Arguments

Details

The default saveRDS method defined in this package is a thin wrapper around base::saveRDS that issues a warning if the object to serialize contains out-of-memory data. See ?containsOutOfMemoryData for more information.

Bioconductor packages can override this default method with more specialized methods.

Value

An invisible NULL.

See Also

• base::saveRDS in the base package for the default saveRDS method.

• containsOutOfMemoryData for determining whether an object contains out-of-memory data or not.

• showMethods for displaying a summary of the methods defined for a given generic function.

• selectMethod for getting the definition of a specific method.

• saveRDS,SummarizedExperiment-method in the SummarizedExperiment package for an example of a specific saveRDS method (defined for SummarizedExperiment objects and derivatives).

• BiocGenerics for a summary of all the generics defined in the BiocGenerics package.

Examples

saveRDS  # note the dispatch on the 'object' arg only
showMethods("saveRDS")
selectMethod("saveRDS", "ANY")  # the default method