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delete: Easy File Handling

Description

delete - Deletes files and directories.

folder - Create a folder/directory.

Usage

delete(file = NULL)
folder(..., folder.name = NULL)

Arguments

file
The name of the file in the working directory or the path to the file to be deleted. If NULL provides a menu of files from the working directory.
...
The name(s) of the folder to be created. If both ... and folder.name are NULL creates a file in the working directory with the creation date and time stamp.
folder.name
A character vector of the name(s) of the folder to be created. Default NULL (if the ... is NULL too) creates a file in the working directory with the creation date and time stamp. Use this argument only if the directory names contain spaces.

Value

delete permanently removes a file/directory.folder creates a folder/directory.

See Also

unlink, file.remove, dir.create

Examples

Run this code
## Not run: 
# (x <- folder("DELETE.ME"))
# which(dir() == "DELETE.ME")
# delete("DELETE.ME")
# which(dir() == "DELETE.ME")
# 
# folder(cat, dog)
# lapply(c("cat", "dog"), delete)
# ## End(Not run)

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