file_utils: Open a file using windows file associations
In mark: Miscellaneous, Analytic R Kernels

file_utils

R Documentation

Open a file using windows file associations

Description

Opens the given files(s)

Usage

open_file(x)

file_open(x)

shell_exec(x)

list_files(
  x = ".",
  pattern = utils::glob2rx(glob),
  glob = NULL,
  ignore_case = FALSE,
  all = FALSE,
  negate = FALSE,
  basename = FALSE
)

list_dirs(
  x = ".",
  pattern = NULL,
  ignore_case = FALSE,
  all = FALSE,
  basename = FALSE,
  negate = FALSE
)

Arguments

`x`	A character vector of paths
`pattern`, `glob`	Pattern to search for files. `glob` is absorbed into `pattern`, through `utils::glob2rx()`.
`ignore_case`	logical. Should pattern-matching be case-insensitive?
`all`	a logical value. If FALSE, only the names of visible files are returned (following Unix-style visibility, that is files whose name does not start with a dot). If TRUE, all file names will be returned.
`negate`	Logical, if `TRUE` will inversely select files that do not match the provided pattern
`basename`	If `TRUE` only searches pattern on the basename, otherwise on the entire path

Details

open_file is an alternative to shell.exec() that can take take multiple files. list_files and list_dirs are mostly wrappers for fs::dir_ls() with preferred defaults and pattern searching on the full file path.

file_open is simply an alias.

Value

open_file(), shell_exec(): A logical vector where TRUE successfully opened, FALSE did not and NA did not try to open (file not found)
list_files(), list_dirs(): A vector of full paths