gFileRead: gFileRead

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s)

View source: R/gioFuncs.R

Description

Opens a file for reading. The result is a GFileInputStream that can be used to read the contents of the file.

Usage

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gFileRead(object, cancellable = NULL, .errwarn = TRUE)

Arguments

object

GFile to read.

cancellable

a GCancellable

.errwarn

Whether to issue a warning on error or fail silently

Details

If cancellable is not NULL, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned.

If the file does not exist, the G_IO_ERROR_NOT_FOUND error will be returned. If the file is a directory, the G_IO_ERROR_IS_DIRECTORY error will be returned. Other errors are possible too, and depend on what kind of filesystem the file is on.

Value

A list containing the following elements:

retval

[GFileInputStream] GFileInputStream or NULL on error.

error

a GError, or NULL

Author(s)

Derived by RGtkGen from GTK+ documentation


RGtk2 documentation built on Oct. 14, 2021, 5:08 p.m.

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