All functions

ccbind() crbind() cfun() cquantile() csummary() cmedian() clength() csum() cmean()

Collapsing functions for batch processing

`[`(<ff>) `[<-`(<ff>) `[`(<ff_array>) `[<-`(<ff_array>) `[[`(<ff>) `[[<-`(<ff>)

Reading and writing vectors and arrays (high-level)

`[`(<ffdf>) `[<-`(<ffdf>) `[[`(<ffdf>) `[[<-`(<ffdf>) `$`(<ffdf>) `$<-`(<ffdf>)

Reading and writing data.frames (ffdf)

`physical<-`(<ffdf>) `virtual<-`(<ffdf>) `length<-`(<ffdf>) `vmode<-`(<ffdf>) `vw<-`(<ffdf>) vw(<ffdf>)

Forbidden ffdf functions

get_nvw()

Internal ffdf functions

LimWarn

ff Limitations and Warnings

add()

Incrementing an ff or ram object

array2vector()

Array: make vector from array

arrayIndex2vectorIndex()

Array: make vector positions from array index

as.ff(<bit>) as.bit(<ff>)

Conversion between bit and ff boolean

as.ff() as.ram()

Coercing ram to ff and ff to ram objects

as.ffdf() as.data.frame(<ffdf>)

Coercing to ffdf and data.frame

as.hi()

Hybrid Index, coercion to

as.which(<hi>) as.bitwhich(<hi>) as.bit(<hi>) as.integer(<hi>) as.logical(<hi>) as.character(<hi>) as.matrix(<hi>)

Hybrid Index, coercing from

as.vmode() as.boolean() as.quad() as.nibble() as.byte() as.ubyte() as.short() as.ushort()

Coercing to virtual mode

bigsample()

Sampling from large pools

chunk(<ff_vector>) chunk(<ffdf>)

Chunk ff_vector and ffdf

clone(<ff>)

Cloning ff and ram objects

clone(<ffdf>)

Cloning ffdf objects

close(<ff>) close(<ffdf>) close(<ff_pointer>)

Closing ff files

delete() deleteIfOpen()

Deleting the file behind an ff object

dim(<ff>) dim(<ffdf>) `dim<-`(<ff>) `dim<-`(<ffdf>) dimorder() `dimorder<-`()

Getting and setting dim and dimorder

dimnames(<ff_array>) `dimnames<-`(<ff_array>)

Getting and setting dimnames

dimnames(<ffdf>) `dimnames<-`(<ffdf>) names(<ffdf>) `names<-`(<ffdf>) row.names(<ffdf>) `row.names<-`(<ffdf>)

Getting and setting dimnames of ffdf

dimorderStandard() vectorStandard() dimorderCompatible() vectorCompatible()

Test for dimorder compatibility

dummy.dimnames()

Array: make dimnames

ff()

ff classes for representing (large) atomic data

ffvecapply() ffrowapply() ffcolapply() ffapply()

Apply for ff objects

ffconform()

Get most conforming argument

ffdf()

ff class for data.frames

ffdfindexget() ffdfindexset()

Reading and writing ffdf data.frame using ff subscripts

dforder() dfsort() ramdforder() ramdfsort() ffdforder() ffdfsort()

Sorting: convenience wrappers for data.frames

ffdrop()

Delete an ffarchive

ffindexget() ffindexset()

Reading and writing ff vectors using ff subscripts

ffindexordersize() ffindexorder()

Sorting: chunked ordering of integer suscript positions

ffinfo()

Inspect content of ff saves

ffload()

Reload ffSaved Datasets

fforder()

Sorting: order from ff vectors

ffreturn()

Return suitable ff object

ffsave() ffsave.image()

Save R and ff objects

ffsort()

Sorting of ff vectors

ffsuitable() ffsuitable_attribs()

Test ff object for suitability

ffxtensions() ffsymmxtensions()

Test for availability of ff extensions

file.resize() file.move()

Change size of move an existing file

filename() `filename<-`() pattern() `pattern<-`()

Get or set filename

finalize()

Call finalizer

finalizer() `finalizer<-`()

Get and set finalizer (name)

fixdiag() `fixdiag<-`()

Test for fixed diagonal

geterror.ff() geterrstr.ff()

Get error and error string

getpagesize() getdefaultpagesize() getalignedpagesize()

Get page size information

get.ff() set.ff() getset.ff()

Reading and writing vectors of values (low-level)

hi() print(<hi>) str(<hi>)

Hybrid index class

hiparse()

Hybrid Index, parsing

is.ff()

Test for class ff

is.ffdf()

Test for class ff

is.open()

Test if object is opened

is.readonly()

Get readonly status

is.sorted(<default>) `is.sorted<-`(<default>)

Getting and setting 'is.sorted' physical attribute

length(<ff>) `length<-`(<ff>)

Getting and setting length

length(<ffdf>)

Getting length of a ffdf dataframe

length(<hi>) maxindex(<hi>) poslength(<hi>)

Hybrid Index, querying

levels(<ff>) `levels<-`(<ff>) is.factor() is.ordered()

Getting and setting factor levels

matcomb()

Array: make matrix indices from row and columns positions

matprint() print(<matprint>)

Print beginning and end of big matrix

maxffmode()

Lossless vmode coercability

maxlength()

Get physical length of an ff or ram object

mismatch() ymismatch()

Test for recycle mismatch

na.count(<ff>) na.count(<default>) `na.count<-`(<ff>) `na.count<-`(<default>)

Getting and setting 'na.count' physical attribute

names(<ff>) `names<-`(<ff>) names(<ff_array>) `names<-`(<ff_array>)

Getting and setting names

`nrow<-`() `ncol<-`()

Assigning the number of rows or columns

open(<ff>) open(<ffdf>)

Opening an ff file

pagesize()

Pagesize of ff object

physical(<ff>) virtual(<ff>) `physical<-`(<ff>) `virtual<-`(<ff>)

Getting and setting physical and virtual attributes of ff objects

physical(<ffdf>) virtual(<ffdf>)

Getting physical and virtual attributes of ffdf objects

print(<ff>) print(<ff_vector>) print(<ff_matrix>) str(<ff>) str(<ffdf>)

Print and str methods

ram2ffcode() ram2ramcode()

Factor codings

ramclass() ramattribs()

Get ramclass and ramattribs

ramorder(<default>) mergeorder(<default>) radixorder(<default>) keyorder(<default>) shellorder(<default>)

Sorting: order R vector in-RAM and in-place

ramsort(<default>) mergesort(<default>) radixsort(<default>) keysort(<default>) shellsort(<default>)

Sorting: Sort R vector in-RAM and in-place

read.table.ffdf() read.csv.ffdf() read.csv2.ffdf() read.delim.ffdf() read.delim2.ffdf()

Importing csv files into ff data.frames

read.ff() write.ff() readwrite.ff()

Reading and writing vectors (low-level)

regtest.fforder()

Sorting: regression tests

repnam()

Replicate with names

appendLevels() recodeLevels() sortLevels()

Factor level manipulation

splitPathFile() unsplitPathFile() standardPathFile() tempPathFile() fftempfile()

Analyze pathfile-strings

swap()

Reading and writing in one operation (high-level)

symmIndex2vectorIndex()

Array: make vector positions from symmetric array index

symmetric()

Test for symmetric structure

`unclass<-`()

Unclassed assignement

undim()

Undim

unsort() unsort.hi() unsort.ahi() subscript2integer()

Hybrid Index, internal utilities

update(<ff>) update(<ffdf>)

Update ff content from another object

vecprint() print(<vecprint>)

Print beginning and end of big vector

vector.vmode() boolean() quad() nibble() byte() ubyte() short() ushort()

Create vector of virtual mode

vector2array()

Array: make array from vector

vectorIndex2arrayIndex()

Array: make array from index vector positions

vmode(<ffdf>)

Virtual storage mode of ffdf

vmode() `vmode<-`() regtest.vmode()

Virtual storage mode

vt() t(<ff>)

Virtual transpose

vw() `vw<-`()

Getting and setting virtual windows

write.table.ffdf() write.csv.ffdf() write.csv2.ffdf() write.csv() write.csv2()

Exporting csv files from ff data.frames