With the ore.delete function, you can delete objects from an Oracle R Enterprise datastore or you can delete the datastore itself. To delete a datastore, you specify the name of it. To delete one or more objects from the datastore, you specify the list argument. The ore.delete function returns the name of the deleted objects or datastore.
When you delete a datastore, Oracle R Enterprise discards all temporary database objects that were referenced by R objects in the deleted datastore. If you have saved an R object in more than one datastore, then Oracle R Enterprise discards a temporary database object only when no object in a datastore references the temporary database object.
Example 2-23 Using the ore.delete Function
This example demonstrates using ore.delete to delete an object from a datastore and then to delete the entire datastore. The example uses objects created in Example 2-18.
# Delete the df2 object from the ds1 datastore.
ore.delete("ds1", list = "df2")
# Delete the datastore named ds1.
ore.delete("ds1")
Listing for Example 2-23
R> # Delete the df2 object from the ds1 datastore.
R> ore.delete("ds1", list = "df2")[1] "df2"
R> # Delete the datastore named ds1.
R> ore.delete("ds1")
[1] "ds1"