rciop.publish {rciop}
=====================

Description
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Publishes results to the distributed file system, or publishes the results location, or echoes strings as inputs to the subsequent nodes in the workflow.

Usage
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.. code-block:: bash

  rciop.publish (path="./", recursive=FALSE, metalink=FALSE, mode="", driver="")

Arguments
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``path``
  the path to the result of folder to publish 
  
``recursive``
  if set to TRUE will traverse the folder tree and publish all files
  
``metalink``
  if set to TRUE the published results will be an item in the results' metalink
  
``mode``
  if mode is set to "silent", rciop.publish will echo the content of ``path`` as inputs to the subsequent nodes in the workflow
  this mode overrides the ``recursive``, ``metalink`` and ``driver`` options
  
``driver``
  [DEPRECATED]
  
Details
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This function stages-out local files to the distributed filesystem or will define the inputs to be passed to the next nodes in the workflow. 

Value
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List with:

* exit.code: 0 if succesful, >0 if unsuccessful 
* output: path of the published product

Examples
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.. code-block:: bash
  
  res <- rciop.publish(paste(TMPDIR,"output", sep="/"), TRUE, FALSE)
  if (res$exit.code==0) { published <- res$output }
  
.. code-block:: bash

  for(i in 1:nrow(selected)) {
    selected[i, "Rdf1"] <- subset(trace, trace$V1==selected[i, "Prm1"])$x
    selected[i, "Rdf2"] <- subset(trace, trace$V1==selected[i, "Prm2"])$x
    rciop.publish(as.character(paste(selected[i, c("Rdf1", "Rdf2")], collapse=",")), mode="silent")
  }

Author
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Terradue