[Rd] RFC: System and time support functions in R

Duncan Murdoch
Mon, 24 Jul 2000 19:08:04 -0000

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