R.utils (version 2.12.3)

lastModified: Gets the time when the file was last modified

Description

Gets the time when the file was last modified. The time is returned as a POSIXct object.

Usage

# S3 method for default
lastModified(pathname, ...)

Value

Returns POSIXct object specifying when the file was last modified. If the file does not exist or it is a directory, 0 is returned.

Arguments

pathname

A character string of the pathname to be checked.

...

Not used.

Symbolic links

This function follows symbolic links (also on Windows) and returns a value based on the link target (rather than the link itself).

Author

Henrik Bengtsson

See Also

Internally file.info() is used.