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)For convertPaths, a character vector of file paths.
For convertRasterPaths, a disk-backed RasterLayer
object, or a list of such rasters.
Character vector containing a pattern to match (see ?gsub).
Character vector of the same length of patterns
containing replacement text (see ?gsub).
A normalized path with the patterns replaced by replacements. Or a list of such
objects if x was a list.
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"
r1 <- raster::raster(system.file("external/test.grd", package = "raster"))
r2 <- raster::raster(system.file("external/rlogo.grd", package = "raster"))
rasters <- list(r1, r2)
oldPaths <- system.file("external", package = "raster")
newPaths <- file.path("~/rasters")
rasters <- convertRasterPaths(rasters, oldPaths, newPaths)
lapply(rasters, raster::filename)
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "/home/runner/rasters/test.grd"
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [1] "/home/runner/rasters/rlogo.grd"
#>