fs (version 1.2.6)

create: Create files, directories, or links

Description

These functions ensure that path exists; if it already exists it will be left unchanged. That means that compared to file.create(), file_create() will not truncate an existing file, and compared to dir.create(), dir_create() will silently ignore existing directories.

Usage

file_create(path, ..., mode = "u=rw,go=r")
dir_create(path, ..., mode = "u=rwx,go=rx", recursive = TRUE)
link_create(path, new_path, symbolic = TRUE)

Arguments

path

A character vector of one or more paths.

...

Additional arguments passed to path()

mode

If file/directory is created, what mode should it have?

Links do not have mode; they inherit the mode of the file they link to.

recursive

should intermediate directories be created if they do not exist?

new_path

The path where the link should be created.

symbolic

Boolean value determining if the link should be a symbolic (the default) or hard link.

Value

The path to the created object (invisibly).

Examples

# NOT RUN {
file_create("foo")
is_file("foo")
# dir_create applied to the same path will fail
try(dir_create("foo"))

dir_create("bar")
is_dir("bar")
# file_create applied to the same path will fail
try(file_create("bar"))

# Cleanup
file_delete("foo")
dir_delete("bar")
# }

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