On Aug 15, 2012, at 3:49 AM, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Hadley Wickham <had...@rice.edu> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Is there an R wrapper for chown/chgrp (a la Sys.chmod)? I couldn't >> find one with a few minutes of searching, but it seems like a curious >> omission. > > A recursive grep of an R-dev source tree I had lying around couldn't > find one in a few seconds. > > I'm not sure its a 'curious' omission, since its something normal > users[1] can't do, and who runs R as root? > > Barry > > [1] Or at least normal normal users. There might be special normal > users with certain chown permissions... > ... and moreover with the increasing adoption of ACL on unix and non-existence of uid/gid on Windows this is more an archaic curiosity so I don't think it makes sense to add it at this point. Cheers, Simon ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
