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Dear all, I wrote a wrapper to a FORTRAN program using R. The main program uses a text file (~200 lines) as an input describing the simulation to be run. I typically generate the file once with the right parameters using a combination of file(), paste(), cat(). This is fine, and it works well, however I then need to update only a few values in the file many times (~200 times,

Is there a way, maybe using Duncan TL's RCurl, to efficiently test whether an URL such as http://$CRAN/src/contrib/ has changed? I.e. one way is via a test of a page in that directory as per (sorry about the long line, and this would be on Linux with links and awk installed) > strptime(system("links -width 160 -dump http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ | awk

One remaining blocking issue for linking FreeBSD with lld is the inability to build the bootloader components. We have a patch[1] in review to address one of the problems by switching to using a linker script instead of GNU ld's -N option. Another issue is that some bootloader components are created by the linker directly as binary objects, using --oformat binary. (Other bootloader components