Checks if the file specification is a directory — isDirectory • R.utils

Checks if the file specification is a directory.

# S3 method for default
isDirectory(pathname, ...)

Arguments

pathname: A character string of the pathname to be checked.
...: Not used.

Value

Returns TRUE if the file specification is a directory, otherwise

FALSE is returned.

Symbolic links

This function follows symbolic links (also on Windows) and returns a value based on the link target (rather than the link itself).

Author

Henrik Bengtsson

See also

To check if it is a file see isFile(). Internally file.info() is used. See also file_test.