RFC: System and time support functions in R

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 08:33:01 +0100 (BST), you wrote in message
<Pine.GSO.4.05.10007200826030.9485-100000@auk.stats>:

I've been looking over system utility functions that we might want to
add to R.  A few come out of specific needs, others from looking at
other systems and what people are using system() for.  I've taken
account of Paul Gilbert's comments posted here a while ago (and I
think covered all except the use of mailers).

We currently have

date
*.socket
file.create
file.exists
file.remove
file.append

Is there any interest in adding binary file access to the base?  I
think it would be really useful, and have put together a prototype
(still for Windows only) that's on my web site at

<http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/Rstreams.zip>

Duncan Murdoch
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