asDataMatrixDS.Rd
Coerces an R object into a matrix maintaining original class for all columns in data.frames.
asDataMatrixDS(x.name)
the name of the input object to be coerced to class
data.matrix. Must be specified in inverted commas. But this argument is
usually specified directly by <x.name> argument of the clientside function
ds.asDataMatrix
the object specified by the <newobj> argument (or its default name
"asdatamatrix.newobj") which is written to the serverside. For further
details see help on the clientside function ds.asDataMatrix
This assign function is based on the native R function data.matrix
If applied to a data.frame, the native R function as.matrix
coverts all columns into character class. In contrast, if applied to
a data.frame the native R function data.matrix
converts
the data.frame to a matrix but maintains all data columns in their
original class