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

Value

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.

Author

Frank Harrell