local.search: Return path of file searched for in local disk based on its...

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

Return path of file searched for in local disk based on its file name

Description

Return path of file searched for in local disk based on its file name.
It has been tested only with Windows XP and MacOSX. In MacOSX, you must have created the locate database first. Use OnyX utilities for this purpose.

Usage

local.search(
  pattern,
  directory = "",
  folder = "$HOME",
  intern = TRUE,
  ignore.stdout = FALSE,
  ignore.stderr = TRUE
)

Arguments

pattern	The name of file to be searched for. Can use wildcards *
directory	The path of directory to be explored in for Windows
folder	The path of folder to be explored in for Unix based systems
intern	A logical (not NA) which indicates whether to capture the output of the command as an R character vector (see system()).
ignore.stdout	a logical (not NA) indicating whether messages written to 'stdout' should be ignored (see system()).
ignore.stderr	a logical (not NA) indicating whether messages written to 'stderr' should be ignored (see system()).

Details

local.search() returns path of file serached in local disk based on its file name

Value

A vector with paths

Author(s)

Marc Girondot

Examples

## Not run: 
RnwFiles <- local.search("*.Rnw")
nc.files <- local.search("*.nc", folder=paste0("'",getwd(),"'"))

## End(Not run)

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