fileNameFactory: A function factory to create a function that is used to...

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A function factory to create a function that is used to create a file name with a certain extention.

Description

A function factory to create a function that is used to create a file name with a certain extention.

Usage

fileNameFactory(path = "Rdata", extension = ".Rdata", createFolder = TRUE)

Arguments

path	the path that is concatenated to a file name.
extension	the file extension that is concatenated to a file name.
createFolder	logical, whether to create the folder if the path doesn't exist.

Value

fileNameFactory returns a function that create a file name. That function has two attributs, i.e., 'path' and 'extension'

Examples

## Not run: 
Rdata = fileNameFactory(path = "Rdata/", ".Rdata")
Rdata
Rdata("asdf")

x = 10
pngs = fileNameFactory("figs/", ".png")
pngs
pngs("pngFig", x)

pdfs = fileNameFactory("pdfs/", ".png")
pdfs
pdfs("first/", "pngFile_", x)

# Once the function is created, the path/extension will not be changed by changing the attributes
attr(pngs, "path") = "figs_2"
pngs
pngs("asdf")
# You need to recreate the function with the new path
pngs2 = fileNameFactory("figs_2/", ".png")
pngs2("asdf")

## End(Not run)

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