On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
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> If you only need Windows then this will do it even without RTools:
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> 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.
Henrik
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> 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]>...
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> > > is it possible to update the modification time stamp of a file using R
> > > (on file systems supporting it)?
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> > For a Windows PC, if you have RTools in your path (from
> > http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/installer.html), then you should
> be
> > able to use the touch that's in the RTools\bin directory:
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> > system("touch sample.dat")
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> > efg
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> > Earl F. Glynn
> > Bioinformatics
> > Stowers Institute for Medical Research
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