[R] dataset.date, date of an object

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Let me repeat

> R does not store objects `permanently' as S-PLUS (sic) does, so your exact
> phrasing is meaningless.

In S-PLUS my.dataframe is an object in a .Data directory.  There is no 
such concept in R.

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Jason Watts wrote:

> Ok, I'd like the date an object was saved.  Here's what I used to do in S-PLUS:
>  
> > dataset.date('my.dataframe')
> [1] "Tue May  4 10:16:00 2004"
> 
> 
> Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> What do you mean by `a permanently stored version of a dataset'?
> If you mean a save()d version, use file.info() on the saved file.
> 
> R does not store objects `permanently' as S-PLUS (sic) does, so your exact 
> phrasing is meaningless.
> 
> On Tue, 4 May 2004, Jason Watts wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking for a function that returns the time at which a permanently
> > stored version of a dataset (object) was last modified, just like
> > dataset.date in S-Plus. Any suggestions?
> 
> 

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