2.4.2.4 About Coercing R and Oracle Machine Learning for R Class Types

Some OML4R functions coerce R objects and class types to OML4R ore objects and types.

The generic as.ore function coerces in-memory R objects to ore objects. The more specific functions, such as as.ore.character, coerce objects to specific types. The ore.push function implicitly coerces R class types to ore class types and the ore.pull function coerces ore class types to R class types. For information on those functions, see "Create Temporary Database Tables".

Example 2-5 Coercing R and OML4R Class Types

This example illustrates coercing R objects to ore objects. creates an R integer object and then uses the generic method as.ore to coerce it to an ore object, which is an ore.integer. The example coerces the R object to various other ore class types. For an example of using as.factor in Embedded R Execution function, see Example 10-9.

x <- 1:10
class(x)
X <- as.ore(x)
class(X)
Xn <- as.ore.numeric(x)
class(Xn)
Xc <- as.ore.character(x)
class(Xc)
Xc
Xf <- as.ore.factor(x)
Xf

Listing for Example 2-5

R> x <- 1:10
R> class(x)
[1] "integer"
R> X <- as.ore(x)
R> class(X)
[1] "ore.integer"
attr(,"package")
[1] "OREbase"
R> Xn <- as.ore.numeric(x)
R> class(Xn)
[1] "ore.numeric"
attr(,"package")
[1] "OREbase"
R> Xc <- as.ore.character(x)
R> class(Xc)
[1] "ore.character"
attr(,"package")
[1] "OREbase"
R> Xc
 [1] "1"  "2"  "3"  "4"  "5"  "6"  "7"  "8"  "9"  "10"
R> Xf <- as.ore.factor(x)
R> Xf
 [1] 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10
Levels: 1 10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9