This function retrieves metadata about files in an archive, it can be passed
to archive_read() or archive_write to create a connection to read or
write a specific file from the archive.
archive(file, options = character())File path to the archive.
character() default: character(0) Options to pass to the filter or format.
The list of available options are documented in
options can have one of the following forms:
option=value
The option/value pair will be provided to every module.
Modules that do not accept an option with this name will
ignore it.
option
The option will be provided to every module with a value
of "1".
!option
The option will be provided to every module with a NULL
value.
module:option=value, module:option, module:!option
As above, but the corresponding option and value will be
provided only to modules whose name matches module.
See read options for available read options
See write options for available write options
A tibble with details about files in the archive.
archive_read(), archive_write() to read and write archive files
using R connections, archive_extract(), archive_write_files(),
archive_write_dir() to add or extract files from an archive.
a <- archive(system.file(package = "archive", "extdata", "data.zip"))
a
#> # A tibble: 3 × 3
#> path size date
#> <chr> <int> <dttm>
#> 1 iris.csv 192 2017-04-28 19:55:29
#> 2 mtcars.csv 274 2017-04-28 19:55:29
#> 3 airquality.csv 142 2017-04-28 19:55:29