Copies an existing Drive file into a new file id.
drive_cp(file, path = NULL, name = NULL, ..., verbose = TRUE)
| 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 |
|---|---|
| path | Specifies target destination for the new file on Google
Drive. Can be an actual path (character), a file id marked with |
| name | Character, new file name if not specified as part of
|
| ... | Named parameters to pass along to the Drive API. You can affect
the metadata of the target file by specifying properties of the Files
resource via |
| verbose | Logical, indicating whether to print informative messages
(default |
An object of class dribble, a tibble with one row per item.
Wraps the files.copy endpoint:
# NOT RUN { ## Create a file to copy file <- drive_upload(drive_example("chicken.txt"), "chicken-cp.txt") ## Make a "Copy of" copy in same folder as the original drive_cp("chicken-cp.txt") ## Make an explicitly named copy in same folder as the original drive_cp("chicken-cp.txt", "chicken-cp-two.txt") ## Make an explicitly named copy in a different folder folder <- drive_mkdir("new-folder") drive_cp("chicken-cp.txt", path = folder, name = "chicken-cp-three.txt") ## Make an explicitly named copy and star it. ## The starring is an example of providing metadata via `...`. ## `starred` is not an actual argument to `drive_cp()`, ## it just gets passed through to the API. drive_cp("chicken-cp.txt", name = "chicken-cp-starred.txt", starred = TRUE) ## Behold all of our copies! drive_find("chicken-cp") ## Delete all of our copies and the new folder! drive_find("chicken-cp") %>% drive_rm() drive_rm(folder) ## upload a csv file to copy csv_file <- drive_upload(drive_example("chicken.csv")) ## copy AND AT THE SAME TIME convert it to a Google Sheet chicken_sheet <- drive_cp( csv_file, name = "chicken-cp", mime_type = drive_mime_type("spreadsheet") ) ## go see the new Sheet in the browser ## drive_browse(chicken_sheet) ## clean up drive_rm(csv_file, chicken_sheet) # }