latestFile function

latestFile

Find File With Latest Modification Time

latestFile(pattern, path = ".", verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

• pattern: a regular expression; see base::list.files()
• path: full path, defaulting to current working directory
• verbose: set to FALSE to not report on total number of matching files

Returns

the name of the last modified file

Details

Subject to matching on pattern finds the last modified file, and if verbose is TRUE reports on how many total files matched pattern.

See Also

base::list.files()

Author(s)

Frank Harrell