File creation date

From: Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:08:53 -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


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

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Steve Lianoglou
Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos