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R.utils

getOption.Options

Gets an option

Description

Gets an option in the options tree structure or return a default value.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Options'
getOption(this, pathname=NULL, defaultValue=NULL, ...)

Arguments

`pathname`	A single or a `vector` of `character` strings specifying the paths to the options to be queried. By default the complete options structure is returned.
`defaultValue`	The default value to be returned, if option is missing. If multiple options are queried at the same times, multiple default values may be specified as a `vector` or a `list`.
`...`	Not used.

Value

If a single option is queried, a single value is returned. If a vector of options are queried, a list of values are returned. For non-existing options, the default value is returned.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson