popTemporaryFile
From R.utils v1.12.0
by Henrik Bengtsson
Drops a temporary suffix from the temporary pathname
Drops a temporary suffix from the temporary pathname and, by default, renames an existing temporary file accordingly.
- Keywords
- utilities, programming, IO
Usage
## S3 method for class 'default':
popTemporaryFile(filename, path=NULL, suffix=".tmp", isFile=TRUE, ..., verbose=FALSE)
Arguments
- filename
- The filename of the temporary file.
- path
- The path of the temporary file.
- suffix
- The suffix of the temporary filename to be dropped.
- isFile
- If
TRUE
, the temporary file must exist and will be renamed. IfFALSE
, it is only the pathname string that will be modified. - ...
- Not used.
- verbose
- A
logical
orVerbose
.
Details
If isFile
is FALSE
, the pathname where the suffix of the
temporary pathname has been dropped is returned.
If isFile
is TRUE
, the temporary file is renamed.
Then, if the temporary file does not exists or it was not successfully
renamed, an exception is thrown.
Value
- Returns the pathname with the temporary suffix dropped.
See Also
See pushTemporaryFile
() for more details and an example.
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