Re: [Rd] Feature request: make file.exists interruptable

2019-04-17 Thread Christopher Hammill
From: Prof Brian Ripley Sent: April 16, 2019 10:24 AM To: Christopher Hammill; r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Feature request: make file.exists interruptable The place for feature requests is bugs.r-project.org . On 15/04/2019 18:44, Christopher Hammill wrote: > Hi R developers, >

Re: [Rd] Feature request: make file.exists interruptable

2019-04-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The place for feature requests is bugs.r-project.org . On 15/04/2019 18:44, Christopher Hammill wrote: Hi R developers, On slow file systems with large lists of files, file.exists can take a long time to run. It would be nice if users could interrupt this function. I think it would be simple