moveSingleFile: Moves a file to a new location on Synapse and creates a link...

In Sage-Bionetworks/rSynapseUtilities: Utility functions for interacting with Synapse

Description

Moves a file to a new location on Synapse and creates a link where the file used to be

Usage

moveSingleFile(synId, newParentId)

Arguments

synId	the Synapse ID of the file to be moved.
newParentId	the Synapse ID of the new parent folder or project where the file will be moved to.

Examples

##---- Should be DIRECTLY executable !! ----
##-- ==>  Define data, use random,
##--	or do  help(data=index)  for the standard data sets.

## The function is currently defined as
function (synId, newParentId)
{
    foo <- synGet(synId, downloadFile = F)
    oldParentId <- synGetProperties(foo)$parentId
    fileName <- synGetProperties(foo)$name
    moveFile(synId, newParentId)
    makeLink(synId, oldParentId, linkName = fileName)
  }

Sage-Bionetworks/rSynapseUtilities documentation built on May 9, 2019, 12:13 p.m.