[R] Reading highest numbered file

[Erik Iverson]

See ?list.files and ?file.info.

E.g.,

file.info(list.files("~/tmp", full.names = TRUE))

Michael D wrote:
> I have a bunch of files named
> "[identifier1].[identifier2].[yyyymmdd].[hhmmss].txt" and im having
> trouble updating my read script for the timestamp.
> 
> I've been using file.exists and a for loop but its highly inefficient
> and cumbersome.
> 
> Would there be someway to create an object containing the string of
> each .txt file in some directory and to sort them by the date and time
> stamps so I can easily pull the last few days worth of files into a
> workspace?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> Michael
> 
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