vsi_unlink {gdalraster} | R Documentation |
Delete a file
Description
vsi_unlink()
deletes a file object from the file system.
This function goes through the GDAL VSIFileHandler
virtualization and may
work on unusual filesystems such as in memory.
It is a wrapper for VSIUnlink()
in the GDAL Common Portability Library.
Analog of the POSIX unlink()
function.
Usage
vsi_unlink(filename)
Arguments
filename |
Character string. The path of the file to be deleted. |
Value
Invisibly, 0
on success or -1
on an error.
See Also
deleteDataset()
, vsi_rmdir()
, vsi_unlink_batch()
Examples
# for illustration only
# this would normally be used with GDAL virtual file systems
elev_file <- system.file("extdata/storml_elev.tif", package="gdalraster")
tmp_file <- paste0(tempdir(), "/", "tmp.tif")
file.copy(elev_file, tmp_file)
result <- vsi_unlink(tmp_file)
print(result)
[Package gdalraster version 1.10.0 Index]