about: Get meta-information about S3 file or bucket
In duncantl/RAmazonS3: R interface to Amazon' S3 storage

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References See Also

This function retrieves meta-information for an S3 file/object or bucket. This information includes the date last modified and explicitly added meta data in 'x-amz-meta-*' headers. These can be specified when storing an object (via the meta parameter of addFile).

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about(bucket, name = character(), auth = getOption("AmazonS3"),
       curl = getCurlHandle(), virtual = (tolower(bucket) == bucket),
        asHeader = FALSE)

`bucket`	the name of the AWS bucket. One can also specify the bucket and object/file name as "bucket/name".
`name`	the name of the object within the bucket to remove
`auth`	a named character vector giving the AWS key and secret as a `c(key = secret)`.
`curl`	a curl handle that the caller can specif to reuse an existing object that is resused across different libcurl calls.
`virtual`	a logical value indicating whether to use the virtual host mechanism or `s3.amazonaws.com/bucket/obj` format. The default argument is most likely the appropriate value.
`asHeader`	a logical indicating that the parsed HTTP header should be returned directly and not filtered.