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Create a named list of files

Source: R/tr_get_files.R
tr_get_files.Rd

Function which creates a named list of files in a specified directory. The list names are trimmed versions of file names, while contents of the list are the file names themselves. In this way, it can be easily piped into purrr::map(~read.csv(.x)) to create a named list of data frames.

Usage

tr_get_files(
  directory,
  pattern = "",
  recur = FALSE,
  date = FALSE,
  remove_string = NULL
)

Arguments

directory

Directory containing files to read

pattern

Optional, case-sensitive pattern to use in file searching. If no pattern is supplied, all files in the specified directory will be returned.

recur

Whether file searching and listing should be done recursively. Defaults to FALSE.

date

Do file names contain a date which should be removed? Must be formatted akin to "YYYYMMDD", i.e. all numeric with no spaces, dashes, etc. Defaults to FALSE.

remove_string

Optional string which can be removed from file names when creating names for the output list. Defaults to NULL for no changes.

Value

Named list of files

References

None.

See also

https://www.github.com/travis-m-blimkie/tRavis

Examples

tr_get_files(
  directory = system.file("extdata", package = "tRavis"),
  pattern = "test",
  remove_string = "test_",
  date = TRUE
)
#> $file1
#> [1] "/home/runner/work/_temp/Library/tRavis/extdata/test_file1_20191231.csv"
#> 
#> $file2
#> [1] "/home/runner/work/_temp/Library/tRavis/extdata/test_file2_20200101.csv"
#>