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Return the most recent modification date

Usage

get_recent(pth = ".", full = FALSE)

Arguments

pth

path to file or folder

full

return datetime (instead of date)

Value

A named character vector: "dstmp" containing the most recent modification date, or "dtstmp" containing the full datetime when full = TRUE.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# invalid path raises an error
get_recent("wrong")
} # }
get_recent(tempdir())
#>  The last modified date in '/tmp/Rtmp9u7z6J': 2026-04-15
#>        dstmp 
#> "2026-04-15" 
get_recent(tempdir(), full = TRUE)
#>  The last modified datetime in '/tmp/Rtmp9u7z6J': 2026-04-15 21:45:38.1902344226837
#>                              dtstmp 
#> "2026-04-15 21:45:38.1902344226837"