saveWidget removed all files in my output folder

[jgrzadziel]

As in title, saveWidget removed completely all files in my output folder, including .csv datasets, .R files, excel documents etc.
I lost a lot of data, and I couldn't find it even in trash.
I had to use some files recovery tool but why this happened? Is the output folder supposed to be empty before running the script ?
Or there is something wrong with my path symbols/folders names ?

This was mu script"

saveWidget(chord_interactive, file = "chord_interactive.html",libdir = "C:/Users/Anna MG/Desktop/Projekty/Lasy - statut/2019/NGS/Z_pola_i_lasu/16S/tables")

Thank you for help

[meabhm]

This happened me too. I think the issue is with the libdir option. The directory isn't removed if you omit it. It's not great though, I did lose a directory containing important data.

[gadenbuie]

Thank you @jgrzadziel and @meabhm for reporting the issue! I'm sorry you lost files by calling saveWidget(). @meabhm is right that when you provide libdir to render a selfcontained = TRUE widget, the libdir is removed afterwards (because the files were all embedded into the file HTML). In general, you don't need to provide libdir; I think the expectation is that most users wouldn't set libdir.

In any case, thanks to your feedback, I've proposed adding a check that will throw an error if libdir is provided and points to a directory that contains files. Hopefully that will save you and others from a similar fate of disappearing files.