Assign a R script or expression to a R symbol in the current R session.

opal.assign.script(opal, symbol, value, async = FALSE)

Arguments

opal

Opal object or list of opal objects.

symbol

Name of the R symbol.

value

The R expression to assign.

async

R script is executed asynchronously within the session (default is FALSE). If TRUE, the value returned is the ID of the command to look for (from Opal 2.1).

Examples

if (FALSE) {
o <- opal.login('administrator','password', url='https://opal-demo.obiba.org')
# assign a function and call it
opal.assign.script(o, 'hello', quote(function(x) { print(paste0('Hello ', x , '!'))}))
opal.execute(o, "hello('Mr Bean')")
opal.logout(o)
}