G'day all,
The documentation for tempfile states :
"The names are very likely to be unique among calls to tempfile in an R session
and across simultaneous R sessions. The filenames are guaranteed not to be
currently in use."
My problem I think relates to the second part of the sentence, which is the
guarantee... and it is being met ... but I need to save the files as .png
files, in the same directory, so I am adding the suffix and I suppose therefore
the next offering can be unique (as it doesn't have the prefix)
I am using a command like :
> fname <- basename(tempfile("nahis", "/Library/WebServer/Documents/nahis/tmp"))
on a mac, or
> fname <- basename(tempfile("nahis", "/htdocs/nahis/tmp"))
on a FreeBSD system, as I need to be able to find the file from the web browser
up to 24 hours later.
and then
> this_filename <- paste(fname, ".png", sep = "")
and saving the file as this_filename, hence the next call doesn't find it's own
suggestion, and starts again.
Is there any alternative filenameing approach I can use to get around this? Do
I need to manually scan and reject the name if it matches the names I already
have? Should I just digest the current time ? (It's working so far!)
cheers
Ben
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