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
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
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 bot
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 upda
"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
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/insta
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
