Configure Batch Processing

Configures a directory for batch file processing by batch_run().

Usage

batch_config(fun, path, regexp = ".*", recurse = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

fun

A function to process each of the files. fun's first argument should be a string of the path to a single file. If processing is unsuccessful fun should return FALSE or throw an error (error messages are caught and automatically logged). If fun deletes or modifies the file then it is no longer considered for processing.

path

A string of the path to the directory with the files for processing.

regexp

A string of a regular expression. Only non-hidden file names which match the regular expression will be batch processed.

recurse

A flag specifying whether to recurse into path's subdirectories.

...

Additional arguments passed to fun.

Value

An invisible character vector of the paths to the files to that will be processed when batch_run() is called.

Details

batch_config() creates a hidden configuration file in path named '.batchr.rds'.

The contents of the file can be read using batch_config_read() or updated using batch_reconfig_fun().

Configuration is only possible if the directory does not already contain a configuration file. If recurse = TRUE then the subdirectories must also not contain configuration files.

The regexp must match at least one non-hidden file in the directory or if recurse = TRUE in the directory or subdirectories. Hidden files are excluded to prevent accidental modification of system files.

See also

batch_process() and batch_run()

Examples

path <- tempdir()
write.csv(mtcars, file.path(path, "file1.csv"))
batch_config(function(x) TRUE, path, regexp = "[.]csv$")
batch_run(path, ask = FALSE)
batch_cleanup(path)
unlink(file.path(path, "file1.csv"))