Configure functions {GladiaTOX} | R Documentation

## Functions for configuring the gtox package

### Description

These functions are used to configure the gtox settings.

Load the current configuration file

### Usage

    gtoxConf(drvr = NULL, user = NULL, pass = NULL, host = NULL,
    db = NULL)

    gtoxConfDefault()

    gtoxConfList(show.pass = FALSE)

    gtoxConfLoad(list.new = TRUE)

    gtoxConfReset()

    gtoxConfSave()

### Arguments

`drvr` | Character of length 1, which database driver to use
`user` | Character of length 1, the database server username
`pass` | Character of length 1, the database server password
`host` | Character of length 1, the database server
`db` | Character of length 1, the name of the gtox database
`show.pass` | Logical, should the password be returned
`list.new` | Logical of length 1, should the new settings be printed?

### Details

Currently, the gtox package only supports the "MySQL" and "SQLite" database drivers.

The settings can be stored in a configuration file to make the using the package more user-friendly. To create the configuration file, the user must first create a system environment variable ('TCPL_CONF') that points to to the file. There is more information about system environment variables in `Startup` and `Sys.getenv`. Briefly, the user needs to modify the '.Renviron' file in their home directory. If the file does not exist, create it, and add the following line:

TCPL_CONF=path/to/confFile.conf

Here 'path/to/confFile.conf' can be any path to a file. One suggestion would be to include gtoxConf in the home directory, eg. TCPL_CONF=~/gtoxConf. Note, '~' may not indicate the home directory on every operating system. Once the environment variable is added, the user can change the settings using `gtoxConf`, then save the settings to the file given by the TCPL_CONF environment variable running `gtoxConfSave()`.

### Value

None

`gtoxConf` changes `options` to set the gtox-specific options, most importantly to configure the connection to the gtox databases. `gtoxConf` will only change non-null values, and can be used to change a single value if needed.

`gtoxConfSave` modifies the configuration file to reflect the current gtox settings.

`gtoxConfList` lists the values assigned to the gtox global options.

`gtoxConfLoad` updates the gtox settings to reflect the current configuration file.

`gtoxConfDefault` changes the `options` to reflect the default settings for the example SQLite database, but does not alter the configuration file.

`gtoxConfReset` is used to generate the initial configuration script, and can be used to reset or regenerate the configuration script by the user.

### Examples

    gtoxConfList() # List configuration parameters

    ## Configure database
    sqlite <- file.path(system.file(package="GladiaTOX"),
    "sql",
    "gladiatoxdb.sqlite")
    gtoxConf(db=sqlite, user=NA, host=NA, drvr="SQLite")

    ## Configure database with default parameters
    gtoxConfDefault()

    ## List configuration of database parameters
    gtoxConfList()

    ## Set the environment variable pointing to the configuration file
    Sys.setenv(TCPL_CONF=file.path(system.file(package="GladiaTOX"),"gtoxConf"))

    ## Configure database
    gtoxConfLoad()

    ## Set the environment variable pointing to the configuration file
    Sys.setenv(TCPL_CONF=file.path(system.file(package="GladiaTOX"),"gtoxConf"))

    ## Configure database
    gtoxConfReset()

    ## Set the environment variable pointing to the configuration file
    Sys.setenv(TCPL_CONF=file.path(system.file(package="GladiaTOX"),"gtoxConf"))

    ## Configure database
    gtoxConfSave()

[Package GladiaTOX version 1.4.0 Index]