production of date stamps

datestampr is used to create the datestamps used to produce unique filenames for the output files.

datestampr(
  dateonly = FALSE,
  houronly = FALSE,
  minuteonly = FALSE,
  myusername = FALSE
)

Arguments

dateonly

requests a simplified timestamp with only the date (no time).

houronly

requests a simplified timestamp with only the date and the hour (no minutes or seconds).

minuteonly

requests a simplified timestamp with only the date, the hour and the minutes (no seconds).

myusername

adds the active username to the timestamp.

Details

datestampr is used internally by the fsm package.

Examples

datestring <- datestampr(myusername=TRUE)
cat(yellow(paste0("\n \n", "Hello world, have a datestamp: ", datestring, "\n \n")))
#> 
#>  
#> Hello world, have a datestamp: 20240121210830alexm
#>  
#>