R.utils (version 1.29.8)

renameFile: Renames a file (or a directory) atomically/safely

Description

Renames a file (or a directory) atomically/safely, by also asserting that it was successfully renamed without side effects. If failing to rename and overwrite an existing file, the original file is kept.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'default':
renameFile(pathname, newPathname, overwrite=FALSE, ..., verbose=FALSE)

Arguments

pathname

The pathname of the file to be renamed.

newPathname

The new pathname.

overwrite

If TRUE and there exists a file with new pathname, then it is overwritten.

...

Not used.

verbose

See Verbose.

Value

• Returns TRUE if the file was successfully renamed. If it failed, an exception is thrown.

See Also

file.rename().