file.access               package:base               R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Utility function to access information about files on the user's
     file systems.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     file.access(names, mode = 0)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

   names: character vector containing file names.

    mode: integer specifying access mode required.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     The `mode' value can be the exclusive or of the following values

     _0 test for existence.

     _1 test for execute permission.

     _2 test for write permission.

     _4 test for read permission.

     Permission will be computed for real user ID and real group ID
     (rather than the effective IDs).

_V_a_l_u_e:

     An integer vector with values `0' for success and `-1' for
     failure.

_N_o_t_e:

     This is intended as a replacement for the S-PLUS function
     `access', a wrapper for the C function of the same name, which
     explains the return value encoding.  Note that the return value is
     false for success.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     B. D. Ripley

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     `file.info'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     fa <- file.access(dir("."))
     table(fa) # count successes & failures

