get_timestamp: Create a time stamp of now as character string for use in...

In matt-jay/rjaytools: A Collection of Utility Functions for Frequent Tasks in R

Description

This function is intended for use in building file names for exports. It creates a time stamp based on now.

Usage

get_timestamp(time = F, string.date = "%Y-%m-%d",
  string.datetime = "%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S")

Arguments

time	A boolean flag to determine whether the time should be included in the time stamp
string.date	A character string defining a pure date format to return as time stamp.
string.datetime	A character string defining a date/time format to return as time stamp.

Value

A character string with the time stamp.

Examples

get_timestamp()

get_timestamp(T)

# change date format
get_timestamp(string.date = '%d-%m-%Y')

# change date/time format
get_timestamp(T, string.datetime = '%d-%m-%Y-%H%M')

matt-jay/rjaytools documentation built on May 28, 2019, 8:45 a.m.