Analysis in R: Easy file naming? The “filenamer” package.

The “filenamer” package can be useful for creating filenames in R. Commands such as “insert” to insert a string into the filename and “set_fext” to change only the extension can be useful.

As an added bonus, here is a command to specify the working folder in the GUI.

Package version is 0.2.3. Checked with R version 4.2.2.

Install Package

Run the following command.

#Install Package
install.packages("filenamer")

Example

See the command and package help for details.

#Loading the library
library("filenamer")

#Create file name:filename command
#Output in "filename" class
#Designation of extensions:ext option
f <- filename("TEST", ext = "csv")

#"filename" class to text:tag command
tag(f)
[1] "TEST.csv"

#Insert string in file name:insert command
#Specification of string:tag command
Finsert <- insert(f, tag = "TEST2")
tag(Finsert)
[1] "TEST_TEST2.csv"

#Change file extension:set_fext command
Ffext <- set_fext(f, "pdf")
tag(Ffext)
[1] "TEST.pdf"

#bonus
#Specify working folders via GUI
library("tcltk")
FoldPath <- paste(as.character(tkchooseDirectory(title = "Select Folder"), sep = "", collapse =""))

I hope this makes your analysis a little easier !!