Gets the time when the file was last modified — lastModified • R.utils

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

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

Arguments

pathname: A character string of the pathname to be checked.
...: Not used.

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.

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.