createLink {R.utils}R Documentation

Creates a link to a file or a directory

Description

Creates a link to a file or a directory. First it tries to create a (Unix-like) symbolic links and if that was not successful it tries to create a Windows Shortcut links. If neither works, an exception is thrown.

Usage

## Default S3 method:
createLink(link, target, overwrite=FALSE, methods=c("unix-symlink", "windows-ntfs-symlink", "windows-shortcut"), ...)

Arguments

link The path or pathname of the link to be created.
target The target file or directory to which the shortcut should point to.
overwrite If TRUE, an existing link file is overwritten, otherwise not.
methods A character vector specifying what methods (and in what order) should be tried for creating links.
... Not used.

Value

Returns (invisibly) the path or pathname to the destination.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)

See Also

createWindowsShortcut() file.symlink()


[Package R.utils version 1.3.2 Index]