https://github.com/lpantano/r2dropsmart

Sync entire folders to dropbox with rdrop2 package
https://github.com/lpantano/r2dropsmart

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Sync entire folders to dropbox with rdrop2 package

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/lpantano/r2dropsmart
• Owner: lpantano
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-11-28T16:28:36.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-11-08T17:38:46.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-14T15:26:21.493Z (3 months ago)
• Language: R
• Size: 11.7 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# r2dropSmart

Sync entire folders to dropbox with rdrop2 package

## Install

```

devtools::install_github("lpantano/r2dropSmart")

```

## Usage

To sync an entire folder use:

```

sync(".", "path/in/dropbox", token = token, dry = TRUE)

```

`dry` option will show the files to update but do nothing.

This will copy the content of the current `.` folder to `path/in/dropbox`.

Use `pattern` option to include only specific files, 

or use `blackList` to ignore others. The latest allows more than one character.

For instance, `blackList = c("data", "Rmd", ".yaml", ".bib")`

The option `share` will return the sharing url from dropbox.

More complex example:

```

library(r2dropSmart)

token <- readRDS("~/.droptoken.rds")

sync(".", remote = dropdir, token = token,

     blackList = c("cache", "data", "Rmd", "R$", "_files", "_cache"),

     dry = T,

     share = T)

```

**shared link gets copied to clipboard at the end of the sync**

## How it works

It uses list.files to get all the files from the folder and the upload with

`rdrop2::drop_upload`. It keeps the `dir` structure from the `local` 

folder you want to sync. That means that if `path` is the local folder, and 

`remote` is your remote folder, all that is in `path` goes to `remote`.

It uses `pattern` from `list.files` to include only some files, or `blackList`,

a character vector, to exclude files matching any of the values in there.

The first time it would create a `cache` file in the `local` folder under the

name `.r2dropSmart_cache` that will be used to compare versions. NOTE: IT IS

NOT COMPARING FROM THE REMOTE, BUT FROM THE LAST TIME YOU UPLOADED FILES.

It won't remove files that are not in local but are in remote.

It uses `rdrop2::drop_shate` to create the link. The info is stored 

in `.r2dropSamrt` in the `local` folder.