[R-SIG-Mac] R-SIG-Mac Digest, Vol 68, Issue 31

[Julin Maloof]

Oops; clearly I didn't understand the question.  I thought Loren needed creation date on files in a directory. Thanks for clearing it up Simon.

J.


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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:58:42 -0700
> From: Julin Maloof <jnmaloof at ucdavis.edu>
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] File creation date
> To: r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch, Loren Engrav
> 	<engrav at u.washington.edu>
> Message-ID: <49088832.2000501 at ucdavis.edu>
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> Hi Loren,
> 
> Try the following.  You need to have XCode developer tools installed.  Assumes that you working directory is where the files of interest are.  Otherwise add a path to the ls command.
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> files <- system("ls",intern=T)
> 
> date <- vector(mode="character",length=length(files))
> 
> names(date) <- files
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> for (f in files) {
> 	date[f] <- system(paste("/Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo -d '",f,"'",sep=""), intern=T)
> 	}
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> Message: 4 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:08:53 -0400 
> From: Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] File creation date 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> Message-ID: <0203AE30-B8CA-424D-9A8E-03BFC316DFEB at r-project.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes 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