syncr: syncr
In mrc-ide/syncr: Synchronise Directories

Wrapper around rsync, with only a few options exposed. WARNING: This command modifies files on your computer and therefore is potentially dangerous. Files in dest may be overwritten or deleted!

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syncr(src, dest, archive = TRUE, compress = TRUE, verbose = FALSE,
  relative = FALSE, delete = FALSE, dry_run = FALSE,
  drop_src_directory = FALSE, inplace = NULL, args_only = FALSE)

`src`	Source files to copy. See details
`dest`	A single destination path, possibly remote.
`archive`	Copy in archive mode, being recursive, preserving attributes etc? Generally this is wanted.
`compress`	Compress files on transfer?
`verbose`	Be verbose? (Always `TRUE` when using `dry_run`).
`relative`	Copy relative paths only, rather than the last part of the file name. So if you have a directory `src` and you want to syncronise all the `.c` files in it, you could use `src="src/.c", relative=TRUE`. You can include a dot at any point in a path name to indicate where the relative directory should start from; e.g. `/absolute/path/to/./src/.c` which will create a directory `src` with .c files in it.
`delete`	Delete files on the remote machine. When mirroring this is generally what you want to do but it is not enabled by default because it's potentially dangerous.
`dry_run`	Don't actually do anything, but print what would be done instead.
`drop_src_directory`	In the case where `src` is a single directory, don't copy the directory, but copy the contents.
`inplace`	Copy files in place. This helps when copying to windows network shares where the unix emulation layer and windows don't get on very well. The downside is that if the copy fails it leaves files in an inconsistent state. By default, it will be used on windows and when the destination is an absolute path.
`args_only`	Don't run anything and instead return the arguments that would have been passed to rsync.