If you're not great at working in the command line (🤚) but you want to work with your files programmatically, I wrote up some examples for how to work with your file system using #rstats packages such as {fs}. github.com/Cghlewis/data-wra…

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Functions used for wrangling education research data - Cghlewis/data-wrangling-functions

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This is just the post I needed today! Do you happen to cover how to find and read in the newest version of a file that has the same name in multiple dated directories?
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😳 That sounds no fun! I don’t have examples of that right now, but I think fs::file_info() would help you with that!
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Replying to @Cghlewis @operantbaby
There are many ways: base #Rstats reads files and dirs as vectors, has file.info() + regexps, parses datetimes, ... A few years ago I gave a (jokingly titled) talk "R for SysAdmins" showing this (using @rdatatable) at @mattgodbolt's OSOM. dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers…

Mar 23, 2022 · 2:37 PM UTC

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Replying to @eddelbuettel @Cghlewis @operantbaby @rdatatable
Ah my word the OSOM! Happy days...perhaps I should summon the energy to resurrect it now the world is (slightly) less on fire, at least in Chicago...
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Replying to @eddelbuettel @Cghlewis @rdatatable @mattgodbolt
Sounds amazing! Thank you.
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