copyFile: Copy a file using Robocopy on Windows and rsync on linux

In PredictiveEcology/lazyR: Create Lazy Load Databases for R Objects

Description

This will copy an individual file faster Robocopy in Windows and rsync in Linux. The function will default to file.copy (which is slow).

Usage

copyFile(from = NULL, to = NULL, useRobocopy = TRUE, overwrite = TRUE,
  delDestination = FALSE, create = TRUE, silent = FALSE)

Arguments

from	The source file
to	The new file
useRobocopy	For Windows, this will use a system call to Robocopy which appears to be much faster than the internal file.copy function. Uses /MIR flag.
overwrite	Passed to file.copy
delDestination	Logical, whether the destination should have any files deleted, if they don't exist in the source. This is /purge
create	Passed to checkLazyDir
silent	Should a progress be printed

Author(s)

Eliot McIntire

PredictiveEcology/lazyR documentation built on May 8, 2019, 3:10 p.m.