recursive_copy: Copy JPG/AB1/FASTA files from a target directory

In rgyoung6/MDOP: Molecular Data Organization for Publication Tools

Copy JPG/AB1/FASTA files from a target directory

Description

This function copies all files with specific extension (JPG, AB1, or FAS) into a new directory. [RECURSIVELY]

Usage

recursive_copy(target_dir, file_type)

Arguments

target_dir	A string with a path for a target file folder. ie. "C:/A_file"
file_type	An integer with a value between 0 and 4 to indicate the selected file type. 0=cancel, 1=jpg, 2=ab1, 3=fas/fasta

Details

The function will operate with or without an argument in a Windows or Apple OS environment.

Value

There are no values returned and results of recursive_copy are printed to screen and are evident through the creation of a file folder containing copies of the target files.

Note

This function was created and tested using Ver. 3.5.1; R Core Team 2018 It was tested on the operating systems Windows 7 and 10, Mac OS Mojave Version 10.14.6 Aside from base functions for this R version no other packages were utilizied

Author(s)

Written by Rob Young and Jiaojia Yu at the University of Guelph in Ontario Canada, October 2019

References

https://github.com/HannerLab Young, R. G., Yu, J., Cote, M. J., Hanner, R. H. (Submitted January 2020). The Molecular Data Organization for Publication (MDOP) R package to aid the upload of data to shared databases. Biodiversity Data Journal.

See Also

target_file_list() recursive_copy() max_packs() copy_by_list() degap() rank_seq() head_derep() seq_derep() multi_to_single_fasta()

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