Import newest csv file in directory

Question

Goal:
- Import the newest file (.csv) from a local directory into R

Goal Details:
- A csv file is uploaded to a folder dail

Answer 1

-- readfile.R --

files <- file.info(list.files(directory))
read.csv(rownames(files)[order(files$mtime)][nrow(files)])

I'd put the above script in a cron job that runs every morning at a time when the file for the day will have been written. The below crontab runs it every morning at 8am.

-- in crontab --

0 8 * * *  Rscript readfile.R

Read more about cron here.