fakeTextFile: Create a dummy text file in a directory.

In AlbanSagouis/myToolbox: Various functions I gathered or wrote

Description

Creates a dummy string of text, saves a text file in base::tempdir.

Usage

fakeTextFile(
  file_extension = ".R",
  dir_path = NULL,
  file_path = NULL,
  txt = NULL,
  n_lines = 1
)

Arguments

file_extension	Character value. File extension, default value is '.R'
dir_path	A character vector with the path to the folder where to save the text file. Default value is NULL and uses base::tempdir.
file_path	A character vector with the path, file name and extension of the created random file.
txt	An optional string (one line) or list of strings (multiple lines) to save in the text file. Randomly generated by default
n_lines	Positive none zero integer value. If 'txt' is not provided, 'n_lines' is the number of lines of text in the file.

Details

If not working inside an R project, dir_path has to be complete from root. To create an empty file, use 'txt = ""'.

Value

A list with two elements: - tmp_path: the path to the fake text file - txt: the dummy text string or list of strings

Author(s)

Alban Sagouis

See Also

For more flexibility in random string generation, see NCmisc::fakeLines. For more automated paragraph generation, see stringi::stri_rand_lipsum.

Examples

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