Great! Thanks a lot! Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <h...@biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote: > FYI, > > this seems to be a known problem that has been address in the the > devel version. From NEWS of R v2.13.0 devel: > > NEW FEATURES: > > - file.copy() now copies read/write/execute permissions on files (it > already did so for directories in recursive copies). > > Source: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/NEWS.R-2.13.0dev.html > > /Henrik > > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was suggested that this question should be reported to r-devel. >> Could you please make file.copy() preserve the file mode information? >> I see from the source code that file.copy() is basically >> file.append(): >> >> if (any(okay)) { >> okay[okay] <- file.create(to[okay]) >> if (any(okay)) >> okay[okay] <- file.append(to[okay], from[okay]) >> } >> >> Maybe something like this should be added to file.copy(): >> >> Sys.chmod(to[okay], file.info(from[okay])$mode) >> >> Thanks! >> >> Regards, >> Yihui >> -- >> Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> >> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name >> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University >> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA >> >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> >> Date: Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 5:31 PM >> Subject: file mode lost in file.copy()? >> To: R Help <r-h...@r-project.org> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> Recently I noticed file.copy() would discard the file mode >> information. Is this the expected behaviour or a bug for file.copy()? >> >>> file.create('testfile') >> [1] TRUE >> >>> file.info('testfile') >> size isdir mode mtime ctime >> testfile 0 FALSE 644 2011-03-05 17:06:39 2011-03-05 17:06:39 >> atime uid gid uname grname >> testfile 2011-03-05 17:06:40 1000 1000 yihui yihui >> >>> Sys.chmod('testfile', '0755') >> >>> file.info('testfile') >> size isdir mode mtime ctime >> testfile 0 FALSE 755 2011-03-05 17:06:39 2011-03-05 17:06:59 >> atime uid gid uname grname >> testfile 2011-03-05 17:07:00 1000 1000 yihui yihui >> >>> file.copy('testfile', 'testfile2') >> [1] TRUE >> >>> file.info('testfile2') >> size isdir mode mtime ctime >> testfile2 0 FALSE 644 2011-03-05 17:07:20 2011-03-05 17:07:20 >> atime uid gid uname grname >> testfile2 2011-03-05 17:07:21 1000 1000 yihui yihui >> >>> sessionInfo() >> R version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25) >> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) >> >> locale: >> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C >> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 >> [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 >> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=C >> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >> >> Regards, >> Yihui >> -- >> Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> >> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name >> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University >> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
