filemagic : R interface to libmagic

So you do need to install libmagic to use this. This should also be pretty straightforward to get working on Windows. Assistance to do that is welcome.

The following functions are implemented:

• incant : returns the mimetype of the files in the input vector (as a data frame)

The following data sets are included:

• (eventually will be an internal mime types db)

Installation

devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/filemagic")

Usage

library(filemagic)
library(magrittr)
library(dplyr)

system.file("img", package="filemagic") %>% 
  list.files(full.names=TRUE) %>% 
  incant() %>% 
  glimpse()

## Observations: 10
## Variables: 5
## $ file        <chr> "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3/Resources/library/filemagic/img/example_dir", "/L...
## $ mime_type   <chr> "inode/directory", "text/x-c", "text/html", "text/plain", "text/rtf", "image/jpeg", "applicatio...
## $ encoding    <chr> "binary", "us-ascii", "us-ascii", "us-ascii", "us-ascii", "binary", "binary", "binary", "us-asc...
## $ extensions  <chr> NA, "???", "???", "???", "???", "jpeg/jpg/jpe/jfif", "???", "???", "???", "???"
## $ description <chr> "directory", "C source, ASCII text", "HTML document, ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators", "...

# current verison
packageVersion("filemagic")

## [1] '0.1.0'

Test Results

library(filemagic)
library(testthat)

date()

## [1] "Fri Aug 12 19:47:32 2016"

test_dir("tests/")

## testthat results ========================================================================================================
## OK: 0 SKIPPED: 0 FAILED: 0
## 
## DONE ===================================================================================================================