standardize_path: Standardize paths

In pathological: Path Manipulation Utilities

Description

Standardi[sz]e path names so that they can be more easily compared.

Usage

standardize_path(x = dir(), sep = c("/", "\\"), include_names = TRUE)

standardise_path(x = dir(), sep = c("/", "\\"), include_names = TRUE)

Arguments

x	A character vector of file paths. Defaults to files in the current directory.
sep	String separator between directory levels in the output.
include_names	A logical value indicating whether the output should be named with the input file paths.

Details

standardize_path wraps normalizePath, providing additional tweaks to the output.

• Missing inputs always return NA_character_.

• Leading double back slashes are preserved under all OSes regardless of the values of sep.

• Leading double forward slashes are converted to double back slash under Windows (they are likely UNC paths), and a single forward slash under Unixes (they are likely absolute paths).

• Other back and forward slashes are replaced by sep.

• Paths are always made absolute.

• Trailing slashes are always stripped, except for root ("/") and Windows drives ("C:/", etc.).

• Windows drives are always capitalized.

Value

A character vector of paths, pointing to the same locations as the input, but in a standardized form.

See Also

normalizePath, path.expand, file_path_as_absolute, getAbsolutePath

Examples

standardize_path(c(".", "..", "~", R.home(), NA))
standardize_path(c(".", "..", "~", R.home(), NA), "\\")

pathological documentation built on May 1, 2019, 10:22 p.m.