realize {DelayedArray} | R Documentation

## Realize a DelayedArray object

### Description

Realize a DelayedArray object in memory or on disk.

### Usage

    realize(x, ...)

    ## S4 method for signature 'ANY'
    realize(x, BACKEND=getAutoRealizationBackend())

### Arguments

`x` | The array-like object to realize.
`...` | Additional arguments passed to methods.
`BACKEND` | A single string specifying the name of the realization backend. Use the current automatic realization backend by default i.e. the backend returned by `getAutoRealizationBackend()`.

### Value

A DelayedArray object. More precisely, it returns `DelayedArray(as.array(x))` when the backend is set to `NULL` (the default). Otherwise it returns an instance of the class associated with the specified backend (which should extend DelayedArray).

### See Also

- `getAutoRealizationBackend` and `setAutoRealizationBackend` for getting and setting the current automatic realization backend.

- DelayedArray objects.

- RleArray objects.

- HDF5Array objects in the HDF5Array package.

- array objects in base R.

### Examples

    library(HDF5Array)
    toy_h5 <- system.file("extdata", "toy.h5", package="HDF5Array")
    h5ls(toy_h5)
    M1 <- HDF5Array(toy_h5, "M1")
    M2 <- HDF5Array(toy_h5, "M2")
    M3 <- rbind(log(M1), t(M2))

    supportedRealizationBackends()
    getAutoRealizationBackend()  # backend is set to NULL
    realize(M3)  # realization as ordinary array

    setAutoRealizationBackend("RleArray")
    getAutoRealizationBackend()  # backend is set to "RleArray"
    realize(M3)  # realization as RleArray object

    setAutoRealizationBackend("HDF5Array")
    getAutoRealizationBackend()  # backend is set to "HDF5Array"
    realize(M3)  # realization in HDF5 file

[Package DelayedArray version 0.16.3 Index]