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popTemporaryFile

Drops a temporary suffix from the temporary pathname

Description

Drops a temporary suffix from the temporary pathname and, by default, renames an existing temporary file accordingly.

Usage

## Default S3 method:
popTemporaryFile(filename, path=NULL, suffix=".tmp", isFile=TRUE, ..., verbose=FALSE)

Arguments

`filename`	The filename of the temporary file.
`path`	The path of the temporary file.
`suffix`	The suffix of the temporary filename to be dropped.
`isFile`	If `TRUE`, the temporary file must exist and will be renamed. If `FALSE`, it is only the pathname string that will be modified. For details, see below.
`...`	Not used.
`verbose`	A `logical` or `Verbose`.

Details

If isFile is FALSE, the pathname where the suffix of the temporary pathname has been dropped is returned. If isFile is TRUE, the temporary file is renamed. Then, if the temporary file does not exists or it was not successfully renamed, an exception is thrown.

Value

Returns the pathname with the temporary suffix dropped.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson