combine_text_files: Combine Text File Contents into a Single File
In patelm9/cave: Package Management Package

Read text from a list of files with names matching a pattern, combine into a single output file. An error will be thrown if the output file already exists.

combine_text_files(
  path = ".",
  pattern,
  output_file,
  separator = "\n\n\n\n\n",
  remove_files = FALSE,
  all.files = FALSE,
  recursive = FALSE,
  ignore.case = FALSE,
  include.dirs = FALSE,
  no.. = FALSE
)

`path`	a character vector of full path names; the default corresponds to the working directory, `getwd()`. Tilde expansion (see `path.expand`) is performed. Missing values will be ignored. Elements with a marked encoding will be converted to the native encoding.
`pattern`	an optional regular expression. Only file names which match the regular expression will be returned.
`output_file`	Path to a file that combined files will be written to. This file will not be overwritten if it already exists.
`separator`	Pattern that separates the text from the other files in the combined output.
`remove_files`	If TRUE, removes each file after it is appended to the 'output_file'. Defaults to FALSE.
`all.files`	a logical value. If `FALSE`, only the names of visible files are returned. If `TRUE`, all file names will be returned.
`recursive`	logical. Should the listing recurse into directories?
`ignore.case`	logical. Should pattern-matching be case-insensitive?
`include.dirs`	logical. Should subdirectory names be included in recursive listings? (They always are in non-recursive ones).
`no..`	logical. Should both `"."` and `".."` be excluded also from non-recursive listings?

In R package file management, sometimes R directory files need to be grouped into function families. This can be done by using this function to first write the group of functions to a new file.

patelm9/cave documentation built on March 29, 2021, 6:28 p.m.