dir.create.unique: Create a uniquely named directory. Appends number & optionally date to directory
name.
Description
Checks if the requested directory exists. If so, will create new directory
name. My favorite method is to have the target directory with a date-based
subdirectory, but set usedate as FALSE if you don't like that. Arguments
showWarnings, recursive, and mode are passed along to R's dir.create, which
does the actual work here.Usage
dir.create.unique(path, usedate = TRUE, showWarnings = TRUE,
recursive = TRUE, mode = "0777")
Arguments
path
A character string for the base name of the directory.
usedate
TRUE or FALSE: Insert YYYYMMDD information?
showWarnings
default TRUE. Show warnings? Will be passed on to dir.create
recursive
default TRUE. Will be passed on to dir.create
mode
Default permissions on unix-alike systems. Will be passed on to dir.create
Value
- a character string with the directory name
Details
Default response to dir = "../output/" fixes the directory name like this,
"../output/20151118-1/" because usedate is assumed TRUE. If usedate = FALSE,
then output names will be like "../output-1/", "../output-2/", and so forth.