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In hrbrmstr/fileio: Ephemeral File, Text or R Data Sharing with 'file.io'

fileio

Ephemeral File, Text or R Data Sharing with ‘file.io’

Description

The ‘file.io’ \<file.io> service enables ephemeral, convenient and anonymous file sharing. Methods are provided to upload existing files, R data objects or text messages to this service.

What’s Inside The Tin

The following functions are implemented:

• fi_post_file: Post a file to file.io
• fi_post_rdata: Post an R object to file.io
• fi_post_text: Post text to file.io

Installation

devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/fileio")

Usage

library(fileio)

# current verison
packageVersion("fileio")

## [1] '0.2.0'

Post a file

(x <- fi_post_file(system.file("extdat", "tst.txt", package = "fileio")))

##   success    key                   link  expiry
## 1    TRUE ouNU6O https://file.io/ouNU6O 14 days

readLines(con <- url(x$link), warn = FALSE)

## [1] "Hi Noam!"

close(con)

Post text

(x <- fi_post_text("Hi Noam!", "2d"))

##   success    key                   link  expiry
## 1    TRUE lWCpV2 https://file.io/lWCpV2 14 days

readLines(con <- url(x$link), warn = FALSE)

## [1] "Hi Noam!"

close(con)

Post R data

fi_post_rdata(
  list(
    mtcars = mtcars,
    iris = iris,
    message = "Hi Noam!"
  )
) -> x

str(
  readRDS(con <- url(x$link)), 
  1
)

## List of 3
##  $ mtcars :'data.frame': 32 obs. of  11 variables:
##  $ iris   :'data.frame': 150 obs. of  5 variables:
##  $ message: chr "Hi Noam!"

close(con)

Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

hrbrmstr/fileio documentation built on May 5, 2019, 12:30 p.m.