File/folder name sanitizer replacing space and punctuation with underscore — filename_sanitizer • saros.base

File/folder name sanitizer replacing space and punctuation with underscore

Usage

filename_sanitizer(
  x,
  max_chars = NA_integer_,
  accept_hyphen = FALSE,
  sep = "_",
  valid_obj = FALSE,
  to_lower = FALSE,
  make_unique = TRUE
)

Arguments

x: Character vector of file/folder names
max_chars: Maximum character length
accept_hyphen: Flag, whether a hyphen - is acceptable.
sep: String, replacement for illegal characters and spaces.
valid_obj: Flag, whether output should be valid as R object name.
to_lower: Flag, whether to force all characters to lower.
make_unique: Flag, whether all should be unique.

Value

Character vector of same length as x

Examples

filename_sanitizer(c("Too long a name", "with invalid *^/&#"))
#> [1] "Too_long_a_name" "with_invalid_"