Open wtimmerman-fitp opened 2 years ago
Right now there is no built-in support for recursive directory listing. You could write something up yourself where you check for directories in the returned list and call list_items()
recursively.
Understood, thanks!
recursive will be handly specially when you are deleting subfolders,
@msgoussi recursive deleting of subfolders should already be handled automatically
I created a gist for a very basic approach for a recursive file and directory listing function using a for loop. https://gist.github.com/CBSti/ae0c2921e7986b517db3e6f3e3a4d0ba I have not tested this with larger hierarchies/directory structures, but possibly someone could find this useful.
I also ended up writing something to do this
https://gist.github.com/jonocarroll/d5d315f1504d4cf8a06caf0bfdf58af5
This uses a depth-first search to recursively list the files and folders and doesn't have additional dependencies (base R). I use jsTree
to interactively explore/search the results. I added a depth limit but this can be raised as required.
I've started developing a package, {sharepointr}, to build out some "missing" features for {Microsoft365R}
and added a function modeled on fs::dir_info() that includes both recursive item listings and a couple other user-friendly features.
Documentation is here: https://elipousson.github.io/sharepointr/reference/sp_dir_info.html
Code is here: https://github.com/elipousson/sharepointr/blob/HEAD/R/sp_dir.R
@elipousson that looks incredible!
Is there a way for list_items() to work recursively in directories? If not, this feature would be very handy to have.
First, to make sure I'm not misunderstanding how to use the package, I can run all of the following commands successfully:
But when i try to use filter with a name in one of the subfolders, doesn't seem to get results.
I've seen that there are some ways to do recursive operations by looking up child directories in for loops, but that seems like a non-starter for the volume of directories I need to iterate over, each of which with their own folder hierarchy.
My overall goal is to replicate something like the search feature on Sharepoint--I need to return a dataframe of document metadata for documents with a specific name scattered throughout our Sharepoint site.