From b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk  Wed Aug 15 09:49:04 2012
From: b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk (Barry Rowlingson)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:49:04 +0100
Subject: [Rd] chown, chgrp?
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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...



[Rd] chown, chgrp?
Barry Rowlingson