zip_process() returns an R6 class that represents a zip process.
It is implemented as a subclass of processx::process.
zip_process()A zip_process R6 class object, a subclass of
processx::process.
zip_process classzp <- zip_process()$new(zipfile, files, recurse = TRUE,
poll_connection = TRUE,
stderr = tempfile(), ...)See processx::process for the class methods.
Arguments:
zipfile: Path to the zip file to create.
files: List of file to add to the archive. Each specified file
or directory in is created as a top-level entry in the zip archive.
recurse: Whether to add the contents of directories recursively.
include_directories: Whether to explicitly include directories
in the archive. Including directories might confuse MS Office when
reading docx files, so set this to FALSE for creating them.
poll_connection: passed to the initialize method of
processx::process, it allows using processx::poll() or the
poll_io() method to poll for the completion of the process.
stderr: passed to the initialize method of processx::process,
by default the standard error is written to a temporary file.
This file can be used to diagnose errors if the process failed.
... passed to the initialize method of processx::process.
dir.create(tmp <- tempfile())
write.table(iris, file = file.path(tmp, "iris.ssv"))
zipfile <- tempfile(fileext = ".zip")
zp <- zip_process()$new(zipfile, tmp)
zp$wait()
zp$get_exit_status()
#> [1] 0
zip_list(zipfile)
#> # A data frame: 2 × 8
#> filename compressed_size uncompressed_size timestamp permissions
#> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dttm> <octmode>
#> 1 file615b544… 0 0 2025-05-30 17:27:34 755
#> 2 file615b544… 1126 4818 2025-05-30 17:27:34 644
#> # ℹ 3 more variables: crc32 <hexmode>, offset <dbl>, type <chr>