R devel - Aug 2012 - chown, chgrp?

Hi all,

Is there an R wrapper for chown/chgrp (a la Sys.chmod)?  I couldn't
find one with a few minutes of searching, but it seems like a curious
omission.

Thanks,

Hadley

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Department of Statistics / Rice University
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Hadley Wickham <hadley at rice.edu>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there an R wrapper for chown/chgrp (a la Sys.chmod)?  I couldn't
> find one with a few minutes of searching, but it seems like a curious
> omission.
 A recursive grep of an R-dev source tree I had lying around couldn't
find one in a few seconds.

 I'm not sure its a 'curious' omission, since its something normal
users[1] can't do, and who runs R as root?

Barry

[1] Or at least normal normal users. There might be special normal
users with certain chown permissions...

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
>
> ... and moreover with the increasing adoption of ACL on unix and
non-existence of uid/gid on Windows this is more an archaic curiosity so I
don't think it makes sense to add it at this point.
>
 It does however raise the question, "What is Hadley up to now?" :)

Barry