#' @title Select a file for loading #' @description Loosely mimics the functionality of the `uigetfile` function on #' Matlab. #' @references https://se.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uigetfile.html #' @param filter Filter listed files #' @param title Pre-prompt message #' @export uigetfile <- function(filter = "", title = "") { # ========================================================================== # Pre-prompt message # ========================================================================== message(title) # ========================================================================== # Reading file path and name # ========================================================================== filepath <- readline( paste0("Enter file path (leave empty for ", getwd(), "): ") ) if (filepath == "") filepath <- getwd() # ========================================================================== # Presenting possible files # ========================================================================== message("Files present on that directory:") print(list.files(path = filepath, pattern = filter, ignore.case = TRUE)) filename <- file.choose() # ========================================================================== # Organizing output # ========================================================================== out <- list(name = filename, path = filepath) return(out) }