Create Latest Folder — create_latest

Copies results from a dated folder to a "latest" folder. The "latest" folder gives easy access to the most recent analysis results.

Usage

create_latest_folder(results_folder_name, date)

results_folder_name: Character string specifying the name of the results folder (subdirectory under "output").
date: Character string specifying the date of extraction (used to identify the source folder).

No return value. This function is called for its side effect of copying files from the dated folder to the latest folder.

This function copies all contents from output/results_folder_name/date to output/results_folder_name/latest. It overwrites existing files.

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Copy today's results to latest folder
create_latest_folder("covid_reports", "2024-01-15")
} # }