Wow, this has to win the prize for some of the most obscure
documentation ever.
Kudos on your M$-archaeology.
Nicholas
Message: 9
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:23:51 -0500
From: Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Rd] Unix-like touch to update modification timestamp of
file
Henrik Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
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
If you only need Windows then this will do it even without RTools:
shell(copy /b /v myfile +,,nul)
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Earl F. Glynn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Henrik Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
is it possible to update the
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you only need Windows then this will do it even without RTools:
shell(copy /b /v myfile +,,nul)
Interesting. Show I figured out that '+' is for append, but how to
interpret the two commas?
Thanks to both you.
Hi,
is it possible to update the modification time stamp of a file using R
(on file systems supporting it)? It is sufficient to update the
modification time to the current time. The best I can do for now is:
touchFile - function(pathname, ...) {
if (!file.exists(pathname))
stop(No such
