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R.utils (version 2.6.0)

isOpen.character: Checks if there is an open connection to a file

Description

Checks if there is an open connection to a file.

Usage

# S3 method for character
isOpen(pathname, rw=c("read", "write"), ...)

Arguments

pathname
rw

A character vector. If "read", a file is considered to be open if there exist an open connection that can read from that file. If "write", a file is considered to be open if there exist an open connection that can write to that file. Both these values may be specified.

...

Not used.

Value

Returns a logical vector indicating for each file whether there exists an open file connection or not.

See Also

See isOpen() in connections. showConnections().