List Contents of Project's Google Drive Folder — cloud_drive

Returns a tibble with names, timestamps, and sizes of files and folders inside the specified Google Drive folder.

Usage

cloud_drive_ls(path = "", recursive = FALSE, full_names = FALSE, root = NULL)

Arguments

path: (optional) Path inside the Google Drive root folder. Specifies the subfolder whose contents should be listed. By default, when path = "", lists root-level files and folders.
recursive: (logical) If TRUE, lists contents recursively in all nested subfolders. Default is FALSE.
full_names: (logical) If TRUE, folder path is appended to object names to give a relative file path.
root: Google Drive ID or URL of the project root. This serves as the reference point for all relative paths. When left as NULL, the root is automatically derived from the cloudfs.drive field of the project's DESCRIPTION file.

Value

A tibble containing the names, last modification timestamps, sizes in bytes, and Google Drive IDs of files and folders inside the specified Google Drive folder.

Details

Google Drive file structure is different from the usual file structure like e.g. on Linux or Windows. A folder on Google Drive can have two or more child folders with the same name. Google Drive marks files and folders with so-called id values to distinguish between them. These values are always unique. You can see them in browser URL for example. The concept of "name" is in the first place for convenience of the end user.

In such a setup a relative file path may correspond to multiple files or folders. This function however works under assumption that the relative path you pass to it defines strictly one object. If there's any ambiguity it throws an error.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# list only root-level files and folders
cloud_drive_ls() 

# list all files in all nested folders
cloud_drive_ls(recursive = TRUE)

# list contents of "plots/barplots" subfolder
cloud_drive_ls("plots/barplots")
}