Package: fs

Function: dir_create()

1. Create a new observation folder with today’s date

Let’s see what folders currently exist in our “file-system” folder

  • Note: A reminder that base::basename() removes all of the path up to and including the last path separator so we can simply view the folder names here
base::basename(fs::dir_ls(here::here("file-system")))
[1] "obs_2022-03-15"

Let’s make another folder called “obs_2022-03-16” (which is today’s date at the time of creating this file).

  • Note: I use the lubridate::today() function to grab today’s date in the form of YYYY-MM-DD and I use base::paste0 to paste a prefix, “obs_” to today’s date.
fs::dir_create(here::here("file-system", base::paste0("obs_",lubridate::today())))

Now let’s see what folders currently exist in our “file-system” folder

base::basename(fs::dir_ls(here::here("file-system")))
[1] "obs_2022-03-15" "obs_2022-03-16"

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