Delete all YAML fragments from a file — delete_yaml

These function deletes all YAML fragments from a file, returning a character vector without the lines that specified the YAML fragments.

delete_yaml_fragments(
  file,
  text,
  delimiterRegEx = "^---$",
  ignoreOddDelimiters = FALSE,
  silent = TRUE
)

Arguments

file: The path to a file to scan; if provided, takes precedence over text.
text: A character vector to scan, where every element should represent one line in the file; can be specified instead of file.
delimiterRegEx: The regular expression used to locate YAML fragments.
ignoreOddDelimiters: Whether to throw an error (FALSE) or delete the last delimiter (TRUE) if an odd number of delimiters is encountered.
silent: Whether to be silent (TRUE) or informative (FALSE).

Value

A list of character vectors.

Examples

yum::delete_yaml_fragments(text=c("---", "First YAML fragment", "---",
                                   "Outside of YAML",
                                   "---", "Second fragment", "---",
                                   "Also outside of YAML"));
#> [1] "Outside of YAML"      "Also outside of YAML"