Lookup extension from MIME type — drive_extension • googledrive

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).

Usage

drive_extension(type = NULL)

Arguments

type: Character. MIME type or file extension.

Value

Character. File extension.

Examples


## get the extension for mime type image/jpeg
drive_extension("image/jpeg")
#> [1] "jpeg"

## it's vectorized
drive_extension(c("text/plain", "pdf", "image/gif"))
#> [1] "txt" "pdf" "gif"