Create temporary diectory and return its name

Source: R/auxilliaries.R

Create temporary diectory and return its name

create_temp_dir(..., warn = FALSE, recursive = FALSE,
  fsep = .Platform$file.sep)

Arguments

...

arbitrary character objects
warn

warn, if folder already exists
recursive

ogical. Should elements of the path other than the last be created? If true, like the Unix command mkdir -p
fsep

the path separator to use

Examples

# Simply create and return temporal directory
create_temp_dir()
#> [1] "/tmp/Rtmp4l1UVj"
# Create temp dir and return concatenated path
# Keep in mind, that 'files' and 'report_2020.xls' will not be created.
create_temp_dir("files", "report_2020.xls")
#> [1] "/tmp/Rtmp4l1UVj/files/report_2020.xls"