renameFiles: rename files

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rename files

Description

rename files

Usage

renameFiles(old, new, replacement = "_", checkExtention = TRUE)

Arguments

old	the original file names. The path information IS allowed,
new	the new file names. Unless on purpose, the path information should NOT be included, because "/" in the new file names will be replaced by characters according to replacement parameter, and the files are saved in the same folder(s) as the old files.
replacement	character(s) to replace the illegal characters in the new names.
checkExtention	logical, if TRUE (default) check if new names contains a file extension.

Examples

# old file names
tmpFolder = "./tmp"
dir.create(tmpFolder)
file1 = tempfile(pattern = "oldFile", tmpdir = tmpFolder, fileext = ".csv")
file2 = tempfile(pattern = "oldFile", tmpdir = tmpFolder, fileext = ".csv")
write.csv(cars, file = file1)
write.csv(cars, file = file2)
dir(tmpFolder)

# new file names (must not contain the path, i.e. "./tmp/"!)
newNames = sub("./tmp/oldFile", "newFile", c(file1, file2))
renamed = renameFiles(old = c(file1, file2), new = newNames)
renamed

dir(tmpFolder)

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