R help - Sep 2012 - tail a file in R

Greetings,

not sure tail in R can tail a file as documented here
http://rss.acs.unt.edu/Rdoc/library/R.basic/html/tail.html

but when I tried my R version 2.14.2 it doesn't work.


I need to tail many files to see if appending operations need to be
performed on them..

Thanks!
Jim.

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Jim Green
<student.northwestern at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> not sure tail in R can tail a file as documented here
> http://rss.acs.unt.edu/Rdoc/library/R.basic/html/tail.html
>
> but when I tried my R version 2.14.2 it doesn't work.
>
Note that that "tail" is not the same as utils::tail that is available
to you by default. Rather that is a help page from the "R.basic"
package (see the top left corner) which you will need to install and
load.

Cheers,
Michael