mangle_filename: Mangles the filename to prevent name collision

In episphere/biowR: Helper functions for Biowulf Cluster

Mangles the filename to prevent name collision

Description

The file names are mangled by insert the date-time right before the file extension. Because of this, all file names are required to have at least a one letter extension.

Usage

mangle_filename(x)

demangle_filename(x)

Arguments

x

A filename containing a file extension of at least 1 character. The argument x can be a vector of filenames. For mangle_filename, although each value must be unique or else you could have two files with the same name. Best practice is to make x simply a string. For demangle_filename, using a vector causes no problems

Value

the vector of mangeled or demangled filenames

Examples

# create a vector of files...
files <- c("~/file1.txt","~/file2.txt")
mangled <- mangle_filename(files)
demangled <- demangle_filename(mangled)
# check that the demangle files are the same as the original files.
all(demangled == files)

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