title: Copy files while preserving original file information (creation time etc.)
body: <p>In order to ease the manual copying of large file amounts, I often use <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FreeFileSync</a>. I noticed that it preserves the original file information such as when a file was created, last modified etc.</p>
  
  <p>Now I need to regularly copy tons of files in batch mode and I'd like to do it in R. So I wondered if R is capable of preserving that information as well. AFAIU, <code>file.rename()</code> and <code>file.copy()</code> alter the file information, e.g. the times are set to the time the files were actually copied. </p>
  
  <p>Is there any way I can restore the original file information after the files have been copied?</p>