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Open a file using windows file associations

Source: R/directory.R
file_utils.Rd

Opens the given files(s)

Usage

open_file(x)

file_open(x)

shell_exec(x)

list_files(
  x = ".",
  pattern = utils::glob2rx(glob),
  glob = NULL,
  ignore_case = FALSE,
  all = FALSE,
  negate = FALSE,
  basename = FALSE
)

list_dirs(
  x = ".",
  pattern = NULL,
  ignore_case = FALSE,
  all = FALSE,
  basename = FALSE,
  negate = FALSE
)

Arguments

x

A character vector of paths

pattern, glob

Pattern to search for files. glob is absorbed into pattern, through utils::glob2rx().

ignore_case

logical. Should pattern-matching be case-insensitive?

all

a logical value. If FALSE, only the names of visible files are returned (following Unix-style visibility, that is files whose name does not start with a dot). If TRUE, all file names will be returned.

negate

Logical, if TRUE will inversely select files that do not match the provided pattern

basename

If TRUE only searches pattern on the basename, otherwise on the entire path

Value

  • open_file(), shell_exec(): A logical vector where TRUE successfully opened, FALSE did not and NA did not try to open (file not found)

  • list_files(), list_dirs(): A vector of full paths

Details

open_file is an alternative to shell.exec() that can take take multiple files. list_files and list_dirs are mostly wrappers for fs::dir_ls() with preferred defaults and pattern searching on the full file path.

file_open is simply an alias.