guessMIMEType: Infer the MIME type from a file name
Description
This function returns the MIME type, i.e. part of the value
used in the Content-Type for an HTTP request/response
or in email to identify the nature of the content.
This is a string such as "text/plain" or "text/xml"
or "image/png".
The function consults an R object constructed
by reading a Web site of known MIME types (not necessarily all)
and matching the extension of the file name to the names of that table.
Usage
guessMIMEType(name, default = NA)
Value
A character vector giving the MIME types for each element of name.
Arguments
name
character vector of file names
default
the value to use if no MIME type is found in the table
for the given file name/extension.
Author
Duncan Temple Lang
References
The table of MIME types and extensions was programmatically extracted
from http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mime-types.shtml with
tbls = readHTMLTable("http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mime-types.shtml")
tmp = tbls[[1]][-1,]
mimeTypeExtensions = structure(as.character(tmp[[2]]), names = gsub("^\.", "", tmp[[1]]))
save(mimeTypeExtensions, file = "data/mimeTypeExtensions.rda")
The IANA list is not as convenient to programmatically compile.