title: What is the purpose of Observable.of operator in RXJS library?
body: <pre><code>data = [{'info':'success'},{'info':'fail'}];
  public getResults(page: Page,data:any[]): Observable&lt;PagedData&lt;CorporateEmployee&gt;&gt; {
      return Observable.of(data).map(data =&gt; this.getPagedData(page,data));
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In the above code what is the purpose of the <code>Observable.of</code> operator?</p>