Message-ID: <4DD6F8B8782D584FABF50BF3A32B03D801A2BCBD@MSGBOSCLF2WIN.DMN1.FMR.COM>
Date: 2005-12-14T20:12:46Z
From: Brahm, David
Subject: Age of an object?
Trevor Hastie <hastie at stanford.edu> wrote:
> It would be nice to have a date stamp on an object.
> In S/Splus this was always available, because objects were files.
The "g.data" package on CRAN stores R objects in individual files,
like the (old) S-Plus model. The timestamp on a file tells you the
last time "g.data.save()" was invoked on that object. Its primary
purpose is to make objects available (as promises) without filling
up memory until an object is actually used.
-- David Brahm (brahm at alum.mit.edu)