Hi Paul, For your first question: max(file.info(".")$mtime) [1] "2019-12-21 21:04:19 AEDT"
As for the second, I didn't know what an AIS file was, so I googled it. I still don't know, so I don't have a clue how to turn a string like that into a number. Jim On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 5:14 AM Paul Bernal <paulberna...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear friends, > > Hope you are doing great. I would like to process an AIS file (which comes > in either a .txt or .csv format). The AIS file is contained in a specific > path, say C:/AISFiles/File.txt. The file contains messages like the > following: > !AIVDM,2,1,2,A,5EPtgd42CRtIADNU@N0<E98v1@TM8F222222220m1HB586R`0?0kk3k`40CP,0*2D,1532995201 > (all of this is a single message). > > Is there a way to make R automatically retrieve the latest file saved on > the path, take each message and convert it to a number? > > Best regards, > > Paul > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.