R: Copy System Files

copyFiles {PBSadmb}

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Copy System Files

Description

Copy files with specified prefixes and suffixes from one location to another.

Usage

copyFiles(prefix, suffix=NULL, dir0=getwd(), dir1=getwd(), ask=TRUE)

Arguments

`prefix`	string scalar/vector of potential file prefixes.
`suffix`	string scalar/vector of potential file suffixes.
`dir0`	source directory from which to copy files.
`dir1`	destination directory to copy files to.
`ask`	logical: if `TRUE`, popup boxes will prompt the user for every instance that a file will be overwritten.

Details

This function uses R's list.files and file.copy functions. The pattern recognition tends not to work when given the wildcard character *; however, the user may use this character, and the code will interpret it.

Value

Invisibly returns a Boolean vector with names of files that have been copied or not.

Author(s)

Rowan Haigh, Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, BC