Rlabkey (version 3.3.0)

labkey.webdav.delete: Deletes the provided file/folder on a LabKey Server via WebDAV

Description

This will delete the supplied file or folder under the specified LabKey Server project using WebDAV.

Usage

labkey.webdav.delete(
    baseUrl=NULL,
    folderPath,
    remoteFilePath,
    fileSet='@files'
    )

Value

TRUE if the folder was deleted successfully

Arguments

baseUrl

a string specifying the baseUrl for the labkey server

folderPath

a string specifying the folderPath

remoteFilePath

the path to delete, relative to the LabKey folder root.

fileSet

(optional) the name of file server fileSet, which is typically "@files" (the default value for this argument). In some cases this might be "@pipeline" or "@fileset".

Author

Ben Bimber, Ph.D.

Details

This will delete the supplied file or folder under the specified LabKey Server project using WebDAV. Note: if a folder is provided, it will delete that folder and contents.

See Also

labkey.webdav.get, labkey.webdav.put, labkey.webdav.mkDir, labkey.webdav.mkDirs, labkey.webdav.listDir, labkey.webdav.pathExists, labkey.webdav.downloadFolder

Examples

if (FALSE) {

library(Rlabkey)

#delete an entire directory and contents
labkey.webdav.delete(baseUrl="http://labkey/", folderPath="home", remoteFilePath="folder1")

#delete single file
labkey.webdav.delete(baseUrl="http://labkey/", folderPath="home", remoteFilePath="folder/file.txt")

}