Sets the read-only attribute for all files available within a folder

This function will change the file attributes so only read access is set

Usage

make_readonly(x)

Arguments

x

character of length 1 with the path that contains files or character vector with filenames to be set to read-only

Value

nothing is returned, only system commands are issued

Details

This function will attempt to set a read-only attributes on files. This is either done through system commands such as attrib for windows and chmod for linux (444). With the latter take into account possible issues with (sudo) rights on files. In case x is a directory, the function will set readonly attribute for all files in the folder (and recurse into all subfolders!).

Author

Richard Hooijmaijers

Examples

tmpf <- tempfile(fileext = ".txt")
cat("test",file=tmpf)
make_readonly(tmpf)