"Henrik Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> is it possible to update the modification time stamp of a file using R
> (on file systems supporting it)?

For a Windows PC, if you have RTools in your path (from 
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/installer.html), then you should be 
able to use the touch that's in the RTools\bin directory:

system("touch sample.dat")

efg

Earl F. Glynn
Bioinformatics
Stowers Institute for Medical Research

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