Get and Register scdisk Subclasses

Mechanisms for registration of scdisk subclass generators for use in functions that rely on the class definition instead of an object.

GetSCDisk(r6class = NULL)

RegisterSCDisk(r6class)

Arguments

r6class	An R6 class generator or a character name of an R6 class generator

Value

GetSCDisk: if r6class is NULL, then a vector of all registered scdisk subclasses; otherwise, a generator for the requested scdisk subclass

RegisterSCDisk: adds r6class to the internal subclass registry and invisibly returns NULL

Details

While scdisk-subclassed objects (eg. h5Seurat objects) follow traditional inheritance patterns (can be determined through inherits), the class definitions and object generators do not. These functions provide a simple mechanism for adding and getting the defintions of scdisk subclasses for functions that utilize the object generators or other aspects of the class definition (such as Convert)

To register a subclass of scdisk, simply add a call to RegisterSCDisk in your load hook

.onLoad <- function(libname, pkgname) {
  RegisterSCDisk(classgen)
  # Other code to be run on load
}

Examples

GetSCDisk()
#> [1] "h5Seurat"
GetSCDisk("h5Seurat")
#> <h5Seurat> object generator
#>   Inherits from: <scdisk>
#>   Public:
#>     index: function () 
#>     set.version: function (version) 
#>     version: function () 
#>   Private:
#>     index.internal: list
#>     versions: 3.1.2 3.1.5.9900
#>     build.index: function (version) 
#>     create: function (version, verbose = TRUE) 
#>     validate: function (verbose = TRUE, ...) 
#>     v3.1.2: function () 
#>     v3.2.0: function () 
#>   Parent env: <environment: namespace:SeuratDisk>
#>   Locked objects: TRUE
#>   Locked class: TRUE
#>   Portable: TRUE

if (FALSE) {
RegisterSCDisk(h5Seurat)
}