Jeff, > This sounds like an OS feature, not an R feature... certainly not a > portable R feature.
i'm not arguing for it, but this seems to me like something that could be a language feature. cheers, Greg ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.