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checkRdaFiles: Report on Details of Saved Images or Re-saves them

Description

This reports for each of the files produced by save the size, if it was saved in ASCII or XDR binary format, and if it was compressed (and if so in what format).

Usually such files have extension ‘.rda’ or ‘.RData’, hence the name of the function.

Usage

checkRdaFiles(paths)
resaveRdaFiles(paths, compress = c("auto", "gzip", "bzip2", "xz"), compression_level)

Arguments

paths
A character vector of paths to save files. If this specifies a single directory, it is taken to refer to all ‘.rda’ and ‘.RData’ files in that directory.
compress, compression_level
type and level of compression: see save. Values of compress can be abbreviated.

Value

For checkRdaFiles, a data frame with rows names paths and columns
size
numeric: file size in bytes, NA if the file does not exist.
ASCII
logical: true for save(ASCII = TRUE), NA if the format is not that of an R save file.
compress
character: type of compression. One of "gzip", "bzip2", "xz", "none" or "unknown" (which means that if this is an R save file it is from a later version of R).
version
integer: the version of the save -- usually 2 but 1 for very old files, and NA for other files.

Details

compress = "auto" asks R to choose the compression and ignores compression_level. It will try "gzip", "bzip2" and if the "gzip" compressed size is over 10Kb, "xz" and choose the smallest compressed file (but with a 10% bias towards "gzip"). This can be slow.