File System Utility Functions for 'NeuroAnatomy Toolbox'

Utility functions that may be of general interest but are specifically required by the 'NeuroAnatomy Toolbox' ('nat'). Includes functions to provide a basic make style system to update files based on timestamp information, file locking and 'touch' utility. Convenience functions for working with file paths include 'abs2rel', 'split_path' and 'common_path'. Finally there are utility functions for working with 'zip' and 'gzip' files including integrity tests.

nat.utils

An R package containing utility functions to support the NeuroAnatomy Toolbox (nat)

Background

This package provides support functions for the nat NeuroAnatomy Toolbox package. Some functions may nevertheless be of general interest. See the online documentation for a for full function listing.

Installation

Released versions

From CRAN. The recommended option for simplicity and since this package is not under heavy development:

install.packages("nat.utils")

Bleeding Edge

Straight from github with Hadley Wickham's remotes package:

if(!require("remotes")) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github('natverse/nat.utils')

Note: Windows users need Rtools to install in this way.