drive_extension function

Lookup extension from MIME type

This is a helper to determinine which extension should be used for a file. Two types of input are acceptable:

• MIME types accepted by Google Drive.
• File extensions, such as "pdf", "csv", etc. (these are simply passed through).

drive_extension(type = NULL)

Arguments

• type: Character. MIME type or file extension.

Returns

Character. File extension.

Examples

## get the extension for mime type image/jpeg
drive_extension("image/jpeg")

## it's vectorized
drive_extension(c("text/plain", "pdf", "image/gif"))