createLink
From R.utils v1.7.5
by Henrik Bengtsson
Creates a link to a file or a directory
Creates a link to a file or a directory. First it tries to create a (Unix-like) symbolic link and if that was not successful it tries to create a Windows Shortcut link. 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
"."(orNULL), it is inferred from thetargetargument. - 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
charactervectorspecifying 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() and
file.symlink()
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