Universe Alias

Constructor

Initialize a new UniverseAlias instance.

Constructor of the UniverseAlias class

Argument	Type	Description	Required	Default
container	Container	A reference to the Container object that the symbol is being added to	Yes
name	string	Name of symbol	Yes

Fields

Fields of the UniverseAlias class

Field	Description	Type
aliasWith	always "*"	string
description	always Aliased with *	string
dimension	always 1	integer
domainLabels	always "uni"	character vector
domainNames	always "*"	character vector
domainType	always none	string
isSingleton	always FALSE	logical
name	name of symbol	string
numberRecords	number of symbol records (i.e., returns nrow(self$records) if not NULL)	integer
records	the main symbol records	data frame
container	reference to the Container that the symbol belongs to	Container
summary	output a list of only the metadata	list

Methods

Methods of the UniverseAlias class

Method	Description	Arguments/Defaults	Returns
equals	Check if two Symbol objects are equal	other (Symbol), checkMetaData=TRUE, verbose=FALSE	logical
copy	copies the symbol to the destination container. overwrite=TRUE overwrites the symbol with the same name in destination.	destination (Container), overwrite=FALSE	NULL
getSparsity	always 0		numeric
getUELs	returns the UELs from the Container. Returns only UELs in the data if ignoreUnused=TRUE, otherwise returns all UELs	ignoreUnused=FALSE	character vector
isValid	checks if the symbol is in a valid format, throw exceptions if verbose=TRUE, recheck a symbol if force=TRUE	verbose=FALSE, force=FALSE	logical