JuliaLang/julia — pull request #936 by johnmyleswhite (2012-06-16 16:06:41+00:00)
Title: Hacks to implement some basic file operations in the way R would.

Here are the hacks I've been using on my end to mimic the file operations R has. The pull request is just meant to have something in place to inspire people to create real code for these operations.