inside: Search a string within files of a folder

In HelpersMG: Tools for Environmental Analyses, Ecotoxicology and Various R Functions

Search a string within files of a folder

Description

Search for a string inside the files of a folder and return where the string is found.
The pattern for files that must be included uses regex for filtering.

Usage

inside(
  text = stop("A text to be searched for is necessary"),
  path = ".",
  pattern = "*\\.R$",
  showallfilenames = FALSE,
  ...,
  fixed = TRUE,
  ignore.case = FALSE
)

Arguments

text	Text to search in files
path	Path of the folder to search in
pattern	Pattern for file names to search in
showallfilenames	logical. Show all the filenames search for in
...	Options for readLines(), example warn = FALSE
fixed	logical. If TRUE, pattern is a string to be matched as is. Overrides all conflicting arguments (see gsub)
ignore.case	logical. if FALSE, the pattern matching for text is case sensitive and if TRUE, case is ignored during matching.

Details

inside Search a string within files of a folder

Value

Return an invisible vector with filenames in which the pattern occurs

Author(s)

Marc Girondot [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
library(HelpersMG)
# Search for files in path with names based on pattern that have the string search inside.
inside("embryogrowth", path=".", pattern="*\\.R$")

## End(Not run)

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