pathological
R package of utilities for handling paths, files and directories
Installation
To install, you first need the devtools package.
install.packages("devtools")
Then you can install the pathological package using
library(devtools)
install_github("richierocks/pathological")
Decomposing paths
decompose_path
splits a path into a directory name, file name (without
extension), and a file extension. recompose_path
reverses the effects of
this function.
get_extension
, strip_extension
, and replace_extension
allow manipulation
of file extensions. They are smart enough to deal with double extensions like
tar.gz
.
On Windows, get_drive
returns the drive name of the path.
Copying directories
copy_dir
copies the contents of a directory.
Standardizing paths
standardize_path
(and standardise_path
, for British English fans) is a
wrapper to base::normalizePath
that standardizes the form of a path, to make
them more easily comparable. You can choose whether you want back or forward
slashes, and the inputs paths are given as names.
r_home
, temp_dir
, temp_file
, system_file
, and sys_which
provide
standardized versions of the similarly named base R functions.
Other utilities
os_path
returns the operating system PATH
environment variable as a
character vector of stanardized paths.
On Windows, cygwinify_path
makes paths suitable for use with cygwin.