read.directory: Reading the files of a directory

In Rfast: A Collection of Efficient and Extremely Fast R Functions

Reading the files of a directory

Description

Reading the files of a directory.

Usage

read.directory(path.directory)
read.examples(path.man)

Arguments

path.directory	The full path to the directory. For example: \"C:\Users\username\Documents\R\Rfast_1.8.0\R\"
path.man	The full path to the directory with the Rd files in it. For example: \"C:\Users\username\Documents\R\Rfast_1.8.0\man\\"

Details

For function \"read.directory\": Takes as an argument a full path to a directory and returns the names of the files.

For function \"read.examples\": Takes as an argument a full path to the directory of the Rd files. If you don't want the program to read any file add at the top of the file the attribute "%[dont read]".

Value

For function \"read.directory\": The names of the files.

For function \"read.examples\": a list with 2 fields

examples	A character vector with the examples of each Rd file.
files	A character vector with the name of the file that each examples belongs.
long_lines	A character vector with the name of the file that has large examples.

You can choose which files not to read for both R and Rd. You must add in the first line of the file in comment the "attribute" "%[dont read]". Finally, that function wil return in the result a list of which files had this attribute.

Author(s)

R implementation and documentation: Manos Papadakis <[e-mail]>.

See Also

AddToNamespace, sourceR, sourceRd, checkRd, checkExamples

Examples

# for example: path="C:\some_file\"
# system.time( read.directory(path) )
# system.time( list.dirs(path) )

# for example: path.man="C:\some_file\man\"
# system.time( read.examples(path.man) )
# system.time( read.examples(path.man,dont.read=c("somef_1.Rd",...,"somef_n.Rd") ) )

Rfast documentation built on Nov. 9, 2023, 5:06 p.m.