[R] How to get "last status change", ctime on Windows?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Sat Oct 10 00:24:24 CEST 2009


On 09/10/2009 5:05 PM, johannes rara wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> file.info is producing data.frame with ctime variable. Help file says
> that on Unix this is 'last status change' and on Windows 'creation
> time'. Is there a way to get 'last status change' on Windows using
> some R function?

What does "last status change" mean on Windows?  mtime is the last 
modification time; is that good enough?  If mtime isn't what you want, 
describe some other way in Windows to get what you do want.  You can't 
get something that the OS doesn't maintain.

Duncan Murdoch




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