Uploads a local file to Google Drive as a plain text document. Will only
upload the file if it doesn't already exist in the chosen location. By
default files are uploaded in the folder "trackdown", if is not available on
Google Drive, permission to create it is required to the user. To update an
already existing file see update_file. It is also possible to
upload the output (pdf or html) of the file specifying the path_output
argument. In case of html files, if pagedown package and Chrome are
available, users can decide to upload a pdf version of the html file.
To know more about trackdown workflow and features see
trackdown-package help page.
upload_file(
file,
gfile = NULL,
gpath = "trackdown",
shared_drive = NULL,
hide_code = FALSE,
path_output = NULL
)character. The path of a local `.Rmd` or `.Rnw` file.
character. The name of a Google Drive file (defaults to local file name).
character. (Sub)directory in My Drive or a shared drive
(optional). By default files are uploaded in the folder "trackdown". To
specify another folder the full path is required (e.g.,
"trackdown/my_folder"). Use NULL to upload directly at the root
level, although it is not recommended.
character. The name of a Google Drive shared drive (optional).
logical value indicating whether to remove code from the text document (chunks and header). Placeholders of type "[[chunk-<name>]]" are displayed instead.
default NULL, specify the path to the output to upload
together with the other file. PDF are directly uploaded, HTML can be first
converted into PDF if package pagedown and Chrome are available.
a dribble of the uploaded file (and output if specified)