addAlgorithm.R

#  addAlgorithm.R
#  FBA and friends with R.
#
#  Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Gabriel Gelius-Dietrich, Dpt. for Bioinformatics,
#  Institute for Informatics, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.
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# Function: addAlgorithm
#
#
#

addAlgorithm <- function(alg, purpose) {
  
    stopifnot(inherits(alg, "character"),
              inherits(purpose, "character"),
              (length(alg) == 1),
              (length(purpose) == 1))


    if (alg %in% .SYBILenv$algorithm[[purpose]]) {
        stop("algorithm ", sQuote(alg), " already exists")
    }
    else {
        .SYBILenv$algorithm[[purpose]] <- append(.SYBILenv$algorithm[[purpose]], alg)
    }
        
    return(invisible(NULL))

}