R: Gets and validates a filename

Arguments$getFilename {R.utils}

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Gets and validates a filename

Description

Gets and validates a filename.

Usage

## Static method (use this):
## Arguments$getFilename(filename, nchar=c(1, 128), class=c("safe"), .name=NULL,
##   .type="filename", ...)

## Don't use the below:
## S3 method for class 'Arguments'
getFilename(static, filename, nchar=c(1, 128), class=c("safe"), .name=NULL,
  .type="filename", ...)

Arguments

`filename`	A `character` string.
`nchar`	An `integer` `vector` of length two specifying the range of valid filename lengths.
`class`	A `character` string specifying the class of valid filenames.
`.name`	The name of the argument validated.
`.type`	Not used.
`...`	Not used.

Details

When argument class="safe", the following 86 ASCII characters are allowed in filenames:

     #$
    @ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[]^_  (31)
    `abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~  (31)

This class of filenames has been extensively tested on for cross-platform support on Microsoft Windows, OSX and various Unix flavors.

Value

Returns a character string if filename is valid, otherwise an exception is thrown.

Missing values

If filename is a missing value, then an exception is thrown.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

References

[1] Microsoft, Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces (Section 'Windows Naming Conventions'), 2012. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx#naming_conventions.