conditionalDelete-character-character-method: Conditional Delete

In rappster/filesystr: Functionality for processing file system ressources

Description

See conditionalDelete

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'character,character'
conditionalDelete(path, condition,
  content_only = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

path	character.
condition	character.
content_only	logical. Only relevant if path corresponds to a directory path. TRUE: only delete directory content, not the directory itself; FALSE: delete entire directory.
...	Further arguments to be passed to subsequent functions/methods.

Value

See method conditionalDelete-character-character-method

Author(s)

Janko Thyson [e-mail]

References

https://github.com/Rappster/filesystr

See Also

conditionalDelete

Examples

## Not run: 

## Example content //
path <- file.path(tempdir(), "conditionalDelete/dir")    
dir.create(path, recursive = TRUE, showWarnings = FALSE)
file.create(file.path(path, paste0("file", 1:3)))

## Delete file if its in a directory that is a subdirectory of 
## the temp directory //
fpath <- file.path(path, "file1")
conditionalDelete(path = fpath, condition = basename(tempdir()))
file.exists(fpath)
file.exists(path)

## When condition is not met //
fpath <- file.path(path, "file2")
conditionalDelete(path = fpath, condition = "abcd")
file.exists(fpath)

## Delete *content* of directory if its a subdirectory of the temp directory //
conditionalDelete(path = path, condition = basename(tempdir()), 
  content_only = TRUE)
file.exists(path)

## Delete directory if its a subdirectory of the temp directory //
conditionalDelete(path = path, condition = basename(tempdir()))
file.exists(path)


## End(Not run)

rappster/filesystr documentation built on May 26, 2019, 11:17 p.m.