qdap (version 0.2.0)

delete: Easy File Handling

Description

delete - Deletes files and directories. folder - Create a folder/directory.

Usage

delete(file = NULL)

  folder(..., folder.name = NULL)

Arguments

file

The name of the file in the working directory or the path to the file to be deleted. If NULL provides a menu of files from the working directory.

...

The name(s) of the folder to be created. If both ...and folder.name are NULL creates a file in the working directory with the creation date and time stamp.

folder.name

A character vector of the name(s) of the folder to be created. Default NULL (if the ...is NULL too) creates a file in the working directory with the creation date and time stamp. Use this argument only if the directory names contain spaces.

Value

• delete permanently removes a file/directory. folder creates a folder/directory.

See Also

unlink, file.remove, dir.create

Examples

##  (x <- folder("DELETE.ME"))
##  which(dir() == "DELETE.ME")
##  delete("DELETE.ME")
##  which(dir() == "DELETE.ME")
##
##  folder(cat, dog)
##  lapply(c("cat", "dog"), delete)