| tempfile {base} | R Documentation |
Returns a vector of character strings which can be used as names for temporary files.
tempfile(pattern = "file")
pattern |
a non-empty character vector giving the initial part of the name. |
If pattern has length greater than one then the result is of the
same length giving a temporary file name for each component of
pattern.
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.
The file name is made of the pattern, the process number in hex and a
random suffix in hex. The filenames will be in the directory given by
the first found of the environment variables TMP, TEMP,
or "/tmp".
A character vector giving the names of possible (temporary) files.
Note that no files are generated by tempfile.
unlink for deleting files.
tempfile(c("ab", "a b c")) # give file name with spaces in!