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drive_rename

Rename a Drive file

Description

This is a wrapper for drive_mv() that only renames a file. If you would like to rename AND move the file, see drive_mv().

Usage

drive_rename(file, name = NULL, overwrite = NA, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

`file`	Something that identifies the file of interest on your Google Drive. Can be a name or path, a file id or URL marked with `as_id()`, or a `dribble`.
`name`	Character. Name you would like the file to have.
`overwrite`	Logical, indicating whether to check for a pre-existing file at the targetted "filepath". The quotes around "filepath" refer to the fact that Drive does not impose a 1-to-1 relationship between filepaths and files, like a typical file system; read more about that in `drive_get()`. `NA` (default): Just do the operation, even if it results in multiple files with the same filepath. `TRUE`: Check for a pre-existing file at the filepath. If there is zero or one, move a pre-existing file to the trash, then carry on. Note that the new file does not inherit any properties from the old one, such as sharing or publishing settings. It will have a new file ID. An error is thrown if two or more pre-existing files are found. `FALSE`: Error if there is any pre-existing file at the filepath. Note that existence checks, based on filepath, are expensive operations, i.e. they require additional API calls.
`verbose`	Logical, indicating whether to print informative messages (default `TRUE`).

Value

An object of class dribble, a tibble with one row per item.

Examples

## Not run: 
## Create a file to rename
file <- drive_create("file-to-rename")

## Rename it
file <- drive_rename(file, name = "renamed-file")

## `overwrite = FALSE` errors if something already exists at target filepath
## THIS WILL ERROR!
drive_create("name-squatter")
drive_rename(file, name = "name-squatter", overwrite = FALSE)

## `overwrite = TRUE` moves the existing item to trash, then proceeds
file <- drive_rename(file, name = "name-squatter", overwrite = TRUE)

## Clean up
drive_rm(file)

## End(Not run)

googledrive

An Interface to Google Drive

v1.0.1

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan [aut], Jennifer Bryan [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6983-2759>), RStudio [cph, fnd]

Initial release