data_table_summary: Provides a summary with date stamps of external data files.

In shug0131/cctu: In-House Functions for Report Writing at Cambridge Clinical Trials Unit

Provides a summary with date stamps of external data files.

Description

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

shug0131/cctu documentation built on Feb. 15, 2025, 3:27 p.m.