Can I access R data objects' attributes without fully loading objects from file?

Question

Here\'s the situation. My R code is supposed to check whether existing RData files in application\'s cache are up-to-date. I do th

Answer 1

You can't "really" do it, but you could modify the code in my cgwtools::lsdata function.

function (fnam = ".Rdata") 
{
    x <- load(fnam, envir = environment())
    return(x)
}

This loads, thus taking time and briefly taking memory, and then the local environment disappears. So, add an argument for the items you want to check attributes for, add a line inside the function which does attributes(your_items) ->y ; return (list(x=x,y=y))