R.utils (version 1.12.0)

popTemporaryFile: Drops a temporary suffix from the temporary pathname

Description

Drops a temporary suffix from the temporary pathname and, by default, renames an existing temporary file accordingly.

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. If FALSE, it is only the pathname string that will be modified.

...

Not used.

verbose

A logical or Verbose.

Value

• Returns the pathname with the temporary suffix dropped.

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.

See Also

See pushTemporaryFile() for more details and an example.