R.utils (version 1.5.7)

createLink: Creates a link to a file or a directory

Description

Creates a link to a file or a directory. First it tries to create a (Unix-like) symbolic links and if that was not successful it tries to create a Windows Shortcut links. If neither works, an exception is thrown.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'default':
createLink(link=".", target, overwrite=FALSE, methods=c("unix-symlink", "windows-ntfs-symlink", "windows-shortcut"), ...)

Arguments

link
The path or pathname of the link to be created. If "." (or NULL), it is inferred from the target argument.
target
The target file or directory to which the shortcut should point to.
overwrite
If TRUE, an existing link file is overwritten, otherwise not.
methods
A character vector specifying what methods (and in what order) should be tried for creating links.
...
Not used.

Value

  • Returns (invisibly) the path or pathname to the destination.

See Also

createWindowsShortcut() file.symlink()