readWindowsShortcut {R.utils} | R Documentation |
Reads a Microsoft Windows Shortcut (.lnk file).
## Default S3 method: readWindowsShortcut(con, verbose=FALSE, ...)
con |
A connection or a character string (filename). |
verbose |
If TRUE , extra information is written while reading. |
... |
Not used. |
The MIME type for a Windows Shortcut file is
application/x-ms-shortcut
.
Returns a list
structure.
Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)
[1] Wotsit's Format, http://www.wotsit.org/, 2005.
filename <- system.file("data-ex/HISTORY.LNK", package="R.utils") lnk <- readWindowsShortcut(filename) # Print all information print(lnk) # Get the relative path to the target file history <- file.path(dirname(filename), lnk$relativePath) # Alternatively, everything in one call history <- filePath(filename, expandLinks="relative") file.show(history)