[R] dataset.date, date of an object
Roger D. Peng
rpeng at jhsph.edu
Wed May 5 14:22:48 CEST 2004
What exactly do you mean by "saved"? Do you mean "modified"? I
don't think there is a way to tell when the last time an object
was modified. However, if you use the save() function and save
an object to a file, then you can just look at the time stamps on
the file.
-roger
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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