as.character.filename: Coerce a character to a filename

In filenamer: Easy Management of File Names

Coerce a character to a filename

Description

This function coerces a filename into a character.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'filename'
as.character(x, tag.char = NULL, simplify = FALSE, sanitize = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x	a filename object
tag.char	character to delimit tags, defaults to '_'
simplify	if TRUE, all timestamps are omitted
sanitize	if TRUE, file name is sanitized by removing problematic characters, replacing whitespace, and converting to lowercase
...	unused arguments

Value

a character vector

Examples

x <- "data_post_2011-01-02.txt"
fn <- as.filename(x)
print(as.character(fn))

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