R.utils: tmpfile – R documentation

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tmpfile

Creates a temporary file with content

Creates a temporary file with content that will auto delete as soon as there is no longer any references to it.

tmpfile(content=NULL, ...)

`content`	A `character` string to be written to the file.
`...`	Optional arguments passed to `tempfile`().

The absolute pathname to the temporary file.

Henrik Bengtsson

md5 <- tools::md5sum(tmpfile("Hello world!"))
  print(md5)

Various Programming Utilities

v2.10.1

LGPL (>= 2.1)

Authors

Henrik Bengtsson [aut, cre, cph]

Initial release