expand_path: Expand a path with a parent directory

Description Usage Arguments Value Note Author(s)

Description

Accessory function which checks if a path is absolute or relative; if relative, use a specified parent directory instead than the working dorectory to expand it. Useful for functions which accept more than one path as arguments, in which one of them contains the absolute position, and the others do not.

Usage

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expand_path(path, parent = getwd(), silent = TRUE, normalize = TRUE)

Arguments

path

The path name (character) to check ad eventually expand.

parent

The parent directory (character) to use if path is relative (default value: the working directory).

silent

Logical value: if TRUE (default), no message are shown; if FALSE, a message inform if parent were applied or not; if NA, a warning is returned if path is expanded, nothing if it is already an absolute path.

normalize

Logical value: if TRUE (default), the path is normalised (normalizePath is applied); if FALSE it is simply appended.

...

R objects which are concatenated.

Value

The path eventually expanded.

Note

License: GPL 3.0

Author(s)

Luigi Ranghetti, phD (2017) ranghetti.l@irea.cnr.it


pobsteta/theia2r documentation built on May 25, 2019, 2:21 p.m.