Provides a summary with date stamps of external data files.

Provides a summary with date stamps of external data files.

Usage

data_table_summary(
  data_table,
  name_variable = "name",
  file_variable = "file",
  folder_variable = "folder",
  mod_time_variable = "mod_time"
)

Arguments

data_table

data frame containing the meta-table of file paths of the external data files, and their desired R object names.

name_variable

character string giving the variable name within data that has the object names to be referenced. Defaults to "name".

file_variable

character string giving the variable name within data that has the file names to be referenced. Defaults to "file".

folder_variable

character string giving the variable name within data that contains the folder to find the external file. data_table_summary Looks up getwd() if empty.

mod_time_variable

character string given the variable name to be created in data_table_summary that records the time stamp of when the external file was last modified.

Value

data_table_summary returns a data frame sumarising the meta-table and the associated information about time of last modification and full file paths.

See also

read_data