get_info: Get File Info

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Get File Info

Description

A utility function to retrieve the file information of a filename, path, or URL.

Usage

get_info(file)

get_ext(file)

Arguments

file	A character string containing a filename, file path, or URL.

Value

For get_info(), a list is return with the following slots

• input file extension or information used to identify the possible file format

• format file format, see format argument of import()

• type "import" (supported by default); "suggest" (supported by suggested packages, see install_formats()); "enhance" and "known " are not directly supported; NA is unsupported

• format_name name of the format

• import_function What function is used to import this file

• export_function What function is used to export this file

• file file

For get_ext(), just input (usually file extension) is returned; retained for backward compatibility.

Examples

get_info("starwars.xlsx")
get_info("starwars.ods")
get_info("https://github.com/ropensci/readODS/raw/v2.1/starwars.ods")
get_info("~/duran_duran_rio.mp3")
get_ext("clipboard") ## "clipboard"
get_ext("https://github.com/ropensci/readODS/raw/v2.1/starwars.ods")

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