This would be extraordinarily helpful, but I have not thought of a graceful way to do it. Everything in R now has a class attribute, but a timestamp for such simple things as vectors seems like overkill. On the other hand, those of us writing packages could implement this pretty easily for complex objects we produce. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David W. Roberts office 406-994-4548 Professor and Head FAX 406-994-3190 Department of Ecology email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Montana State University Bozeman, MT 59717-3460
Trevor Hastie wrote: > It would be nice to have a date stamp on an object. > In S/Splus this was always available, because objects were files. > > I have looked around, but I presume this information is not available. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Trevor Hastie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University > Phone: (650) 725-2231 (Statistics) Fax: (650) 725-8977 > (650) 498-5233 (Biostatistics) Fax: (650) 725-6951 > URL: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~hastie > address: room 104, Department of Statistics, Sequoia Hall > 390 Serra Mall, Stanford University, CA 94305-4065 > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
