[R-SIG-Mac] File creation date

[Simon Urbanek]

On Oct 28, 2008, at 19:03 , Loren Engrav wrote:

> Sorry my email was unclear
> I am looking at files within a saved R workspace
>
> The date of the workspace file is 3/18/2007 but I don't think all of  
> the
> files were created on that date as I think I used the workspace over  
> some
> period of time
>
> So I would like the creation date of the files WITHIN the workspace
>

There is no file *within* the workspace. The workspace *is* one file  
of serialized R objects and they themselves don't have any timestamp  
associated with them. So all you can find out is when you last saved  
(or accessed) the workspace, that's all.

Cheers,
S


>> From: Steve Lianoglou <mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:48:34 -0400
>> To: Loren Engrav <engrav at u.washington.edu>
>> Cc: "r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] File creation date
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Oct 28, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Loren Engrav wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, I give up
>>>
>>> I am exploring some workspace files created long long ago
>>> And need the creation date of some of the files
>>>
>>> I try ls() but cannot see the parameters to show creation date
>>> I try file.info and get NA
>>> How do I get creation date to show
>>
>> One way is to navigate to the file via the Finder, select it, and hit
>> Cmd-I (File > Get Info)
>>
>> You'll find what you're looking for in the "General" section.
>>
>> HTH,
>> -steve
>>
>> --
>> Steve Lianoglou
>> Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
>> Weill Medical College of Cornell University
>>
>> http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos
>>
>>
>>
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