Create a touch file on Unix [closed]

Question

I am new to R programming and had a requirement to create a zero byte/tag/touch file on Unix server using R.

Is it possible to create a file on Unix using R?

Answer 1

You can create an empty data frame and write that to disk:

x <- data.frame()
write.table(x, file='empty', col.names=FALSE)

Result:

-rw-rw-r--. 1 matt matt    0 May 28 20:29 empty