Return the object stored in a RDS at a specified file path, or an alternate value/object if the file doesn't exist.

Return the object stored in a RDS at a specified file path, or an alternate value/object if the file doesn't exist.

Usage

readRDS_or_return_alt_data(filepath, alt_return = NULL)

Arguments

filepath

a single string containing a file path to a RDS file

alt_return

an R object/value to be returned if the file at filepath does not exist

Value

an object, either the object stored in the RDS at the filepath or the value of alt_return