On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:33:01AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> Is there a way to check whether a file is empty in R. I did the customary
> searches, but did not find anything. Please cc me on any reply.
Empty file have, by definition, a size of zero, so here's one way:
> system("touch /tmp/faheem")
> file.info("/tmp/faheem")$size == 0
[1] TRUE
Hth, Dirk
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