six_bucket_delete: Delete an S3 bucket

In sixtyfour: Humane Interface to Amazon Web Services

Delete an S3 bucket

Description

Takes care of deleting bucket objects, so that the bucket itself can be deleted cleanly

Usage

six_bucket_delete(bucket, force = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

bucket	(character) bucket name. required
force	(logical) force deletion without going through the prompt. default: FALSE. Should only be set to TRUE when required for non-interactive use.
...	named parameters passed on to delete_bucket

Value

NULL, invisibly

What is magical

• Exits early if bucket does not exist

• Checks for any objects in the bucket and deletes any present

• Deletes bucket after deleting objects

See Also

Other buckets: aws_bucket_create(), aws_bucket_delete(), aws_bucket_download(), aws_bucket_exists(), aws_bucket_list_objects(), aws_bucket_tree(), aws_bucket_upload(), aws_buckets(), six_bucket_upload()

Other magicians: six_admin_setup(), six_bucket_upload(), six_file_upload(), six_user_create(), six_user_delete()

Examples

# bucket does not exist
six_bucket_delete("notabucket")

# bucket exists w/o objects
bucket <- random_bucket()
aws_bucket_create(bucket)
six_bucket_delete(bucket, force = TRUE)

# bucket exists w/ objects (files and directories with files)
bucket <- random_bucket()
aws_bucket_create(bucket)
demo_rds_file <- file.path(system.file(), "Meta/demo.rds")
links_file <- file.path(system.file(), "Meta/links.rds")
aws_file_upload(
  c(demo_rds_file, links_file),
  s3_path(bucket, c(basename(demo_rds_file), basename(links_file)))
)
aws_file_upload(
  c(demo_rds_file, links_file),
  s3_path(
    bucket, "newfolder",
    c(basename(demo_rds_file), basename(links_file))
  )
)
aws_bucket_list_objects(bucket)
six_bucket_delete(bucket, force = TRUE)

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