copy_dir: Copy the contents of a directory

In richierocks/pathological: Path Manipulation Utilities

Description

Copies the contents of a directory, possibly recursively.

Usage

copy_dir(source_dir, target_dir, pattern = NULL, overwrite = FALSE,
  recursive = TRUE)

dir_copy(...)

Arguments

source_dir	String of directory to copy from.
target_dir	String of directory to copy to.
pattern	String regex or NULL. A filter for filenames, passed to dir.
overwrite	Logical value. Should existing files be overwritten?
recursive	Logical value. Should subdirectories and their contents be copied?
...	Passed from the defunct dir_copy to copy_dir.

Value

A logical vector of whether or not each file was successfully copied is invisibly returned.

Note

Target directories that don't exist are created, silently (assuming write permission).

See Also

basename

Examples

## Not run: 
#Copy subdirs by default
copy_dir(R.home("etc"), file.path(tempdir(), "etc"))
#Just copy the top level
copy_dir(R.home("etc"), file.path(tempdir(), "etc2"), recursive = FALSE)
#Now copy deeper levels, without overwriting.
copy_dir(R.home("etc"), file.path(tempdir(), "etc2"), overwrite = FALSE)
#Cleanup
unlink(file.path(tempdir(), "etc"), recursive = TRUE)
unlink(file.path(tempdir(), "etc2"), recursive = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

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