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Get the sizes of local files or files from URLs

Source: R/get_file_size.R
get_file_size.Rd

get_file_size() returns the sizes of files in bytes. It works with local and remote files.

Usage

get_file_size(
  file,
  connection_timeout = 10,
  max_tries = 3,
  retry_on_failure = TRUE
)

Arguments

file

A character vector of file paths. The function also works with URLs.

connection_timeout

(optional) A numeric value specifying the connection timeout in seconds for HTTP requests (default: 10).

max_tries

(optional) A numeric value specifying the maximum number of retry attempts (default: 3).

retry_on_failure

(optional) A logical value indicating whether to retry on failure (default: TRUE).

Value

A fs_bytes vector of file sizes.

See also

Other file functions: download_file()

Examples

library(fs)
library(readr)

files <- c("file1.txt", "file2.txt", "file3.txt")

dir <- tempfile("dir")
dir.create(dir)

for (i in files) {
  letters |>
    rep(sample(1000:10000, 1)) |>
    write_lines(file.path(dir, i))
}

urls <- c(
  paste0(
    "https://geodata.ucdavis.edu/climate/worldclim/2_1/base/",
    "wc2.1_2.5m_tavg.zip"
  ),
  paste0(
    "https://geodata.ucdavis.edu/climate/worldclim/2_1/base/",
    "wc2.1_10m_prec.zip"
  )
)

c(urls, path(dir, files)) |> get_file_size()
#> 422.69M   6.92M 221.96K 151.33K 154.68K