Probably don't attempt to overwrite or change a user's chosen filenames.
I would probably still use tempfile(), but set either the pattern (which
gives a prefix)
or fileext for a chosen extension.
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Ogan Mancarci
wrote:
> Corrected antiSocialSkip6Lines
>
> anti
Corrected antiSocialSkip6Lines
antiSocialSkip6Lines = function(filename, output = paste0(filename,
'_skipped')){
lines = readLines(filename)
lines = lines[-(1:6)]
writeLines(lines, output)
}
On 26 March 2018 at 16:06, Ogan Mancarci wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> What abo
Thanks for the clarification.
What about a scenario where the user has enter a filename which is used as
a seed for the output file. For instance
antiSocialSkip6Lines = function(filename, output = paste0(filename,
'_skipped')){
lines = readLines(filename)
lines = lines[-(1:6)]
}
Here, th
On 26.03.2018 23:48, Ogan Mancarci wrote:
This is from CRAN repository policy:
"Packages should not write in the user’s home filespace (including
clipboards), nor anywhere else on the file system apart from the R
session’s temporary directory (or during installation in the location
pointed to
This is from CRAN repository policy:
"Packages should not write in the user’s home filespace (including
clipboards), nor anywhere else on the file system apart from the R
session’s temporary directory (or during installation in the location
pointed to by TMPDIR: and such usage should be cleaned u
