gzip_files: Compress data files

In bgulbis/dirr: Create Directories for a Data Project

Description

gzip_files compresses all data files in a directory using gzip, if not already compressed

Usage

gzip_files(dir.name = "data/raw", pattern = NULL, recursive = FALSE)

Arguments

dir.name	A string with the name of the directory containing the data files. Defaults to the data/raw directory.
pattern	An optional regular expression. Only file names which match the regular expression will be compressed.
recursive	A boolean indicating whether to include subdirectories

Details

This function takes the name of a directory and checks all of the data files within the directory to if they are already compressed. For each file that is not, it will compress the file using gzip.

See Also

gzip, regex for regular expressions

bgulbis/dirr documentation built on Dec. 26, 2021, 6:40 a.m.