Change the absolute path of a file

convertPaths is simply a wrapper around gsub for changing the first part of a path. convertRasterPaths is useful for changing the path to a file-backed raster (e.g., after copying the file to a new location).

convertPaths(x, patterns, replacements)

convertRasterPaths(x, patterns, replacements)

Arguments

x

For convertPaths, a character vector of file paths. For convertRasterPaths, a disk-backed RasterLayer object, or a list of such rasters.

patterns

Character vector containing a pattern to match (see ?gsub).

replacements

Character vector of the same length of patterns containing replacement text (see ?gsub).

Value

A normalized path with the patterns replaced by replacements. Or a list of such objects if x was a list.

Author

Eliot McIntire and Alex Chubaty

Examples

filenames <- c("/home/user1/Documents/file.txt", "/Users/user1/Documents/file.txt")
oldPaths <- dirname(filenames)
newPaths <- c("/home/user2/Desktop", "/Users/user2/Desktop")
convertPaths(filenames, oldPaths, newPaths)
#> [1] "/home/user2/Desktop/file.txt"  "/Users/user2/Desktop/file.txt"