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Small helper function to extract the latest date-time from a data frame or a list of data frames.

Usage

get_max_time(data, col_name = "edit_date_time")

Arguments

data

data to look for the latest date time. Can be a data frame or a list of data frames.

col_name

character vector with the column name in which to search for the date object.

Value

A date-time object of length 1.

Examples

# example data:
dfs <- lapply(1:10, \(x){data.frame(
  "edit_date_time" = sample(seq(as.Date('1999/01/01'), as.Date('2000/01/01'), by="day"), 12)
  )})
get_max_time(dfs, "edit_date_time")
#> [1] "1999-12-31 UTC"