Class defining methods for all consumers

Description

A virtual base class representing components that can consume data from a Producer, and yield data to the user or other Consumer instances. A Consumer typically transforms records from one form to another. Producer and Consumer instances are associated with each other through the Stream function.

Methods

Methods defined on this class include:

Stream

Construct a stream from one Producer and one or more Consumer. See ?Stream.

Internal Class Fields and Methods

Internal fields of this class are are described with, e.g., getRefClass("Consumer")$fields.

Internal methods of this class are described with getRefClass("Consumer")$methods() and getRefClass("Consumer")$help().

Author(s)

Martin Morgan mtmorgan@fhcrc.org

See Also

Streamer-package, Streamer-class, Producer-class, Stream-class.

Examples

showClass("Consumer")