checkmate (version 1.6.1)

checkPathForOutput: Check file path for later output

Description

Check whether a file path can later be safely used to create a file and write to it.

This is checked:

• Doesdirname(x)exist?

Does no file under path x exist? Is dirname(x) writeable?

Usage

checkPathForOutput(x, overwrite = FALSE)
assertPathForOutput(x, overwrite = FALSE, .var.name)
testPathForOutput(x, overwrite = FALSE)
expect_path_for_output(x, overwrite = FALSE, info = NULL, label = NULL)

Arguments

x

[any] Object to check.

overwrite

[logical(1)] If TRUE, an exising file in place is allowed if it it is both readable and writeable. Default is FALSE.

.var.name

[character(1)] Name for x. Defaults to a heuristic to determine the name using deparse and substitute.

info

[character(1)] Extra information to be included in the message for the testthat reporter. See expect_that.

label

[character(1)] Same as .var.name, but passed down to expect_that.

Value

• Depending on the function prefix: If the check is successful, all functions return TRUE. If the check is not successful, assertPathForOutput throws an error message, testPathForOutput returns FALSE, checkPathForOutput returns a string with the error message. The function expect_path_for_output will return an expectation.

See Also

Other filesystem: assertAccess, checkAccess, expect_access, testAccess; assertDirectory, checkDirectory, expect_directory, testDirectory; assertFile, checkFile, expect_file, testFile

Examples

# Can we create a file in the tempdir?
testPathForOutput(file.path(tempdir(), "process.log"))