SkyQuery.dropTable {SciServer}R Documentation

Drop table

Description

Drops (deletes) a table from the user database (more info in http://www.voservices.net/skyquery).

Usage

SkyQuery.dropTable(tableName, datasetName="MyDB")

Arguments

tableName

name of table (string) within dataset.

datasetName

name of dataset or database context (string).

Value

Returns TRUE if the table was deleted successfully. Throws an exception if the user is not logged into SciServer (use Authentication.login for that purpose). Throws an exception if the HTTP request to the SkyQuery API returns an error.

Author(s)

Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp <mtaghiza@jhu.edu>

References

http://www.sciserver.org
http://www.voservices.net/skyquery
http://www.github.com/sciserver/SciScript-R

See Also

SkyQuery.listQueues, SkyQuery.listAllDatasets, SkyQuery.getDatasetInfo, SkyQuery.listDatasetTables, SkyQuery.getTableInfo, SkyQuery.listTableColumns, SkyQuery.getTable, SkyQuery.dropTable, SkyQuery.uploadTable.

Examples

result = SkyQuery.dropTable("myTable", datasetName="MyDB")

[Package SciServer version 2.0.0 Index]