validConnection {ReportingTools} | R Documentation

## Determine connection validity

### Description

Determine if a connection to an HTML page can be written to or not.

### Usage

    validConnection(htmlRep)

### Arguments

`htmlRep` | An object of class `HTMLReport`.

### Value

Returns TRUE if the page can be written to. If the file handle has been closed, then FALSE.

### See Also

`link{HTMLReport-class}`

### Examples

    my.df <- data.frame(EGID = c("103", "104", "105", "106", "107"),
                        RPKM = c(4, 5, 3, 100, 75),
                        DE = c("Yes", "Yes", "No", "No", "No"))
    html.report <- makeOldHTMLReport(shortName = "my_html_file",
         reportDirectory = "reportDirectory")
    publish(my.df, html.report)
    validConnection(html.report) # Returns TRUE

    finish(html.report)
    validConnection(html.report) # Returns FALSE

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