cacheCleanup: cacheCleanup

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cacheCleanup

Description

Delete files older than the specified number of days, based on file time metadata (per default atime = last access time).

Usage

cacheCleanup(
  daysThreshold,
  path = getConfig("cachefolder", verbose = FALSE),
  timeType = c("atime", "mtime", "ctime"),
  ask = TRUE,
  readlineFunction = readline
)

Arguments

daysThreshold	Files older than this many days are deleted/returned.
path	Path to where to look for old files.
timeType	Which file metadata time should be used. One of atime (last access time, default), mtime (last modify time), ctime (last metadata change).
ask	Whether to ask before deleting.
readlineFunction	Only needed for testing. A function to prompt the user for input.

Details

File time metadata is not available on all systems and the semantics are also system dependent, so please be careful and check that the correct files are deleted. This function will return a data.frame containing all files that would be deleted if the user answers 'n' to the question. If deleting files fails a warning is created.

Value

If the user answers 'n', a data.frame as returned by base::file.info, containing only files older than <daysThreshold> days.

madrat documentation built on Aug. 23, 2023, 5:10 p.m.