Argument extra_cols has been backported.
See the original description in base::file.info.
file.info(..., extra_cols = TRUE)# get function from namespace instead of possibly getting
# implementation shipped with recent R versions:
bp_file.info = getFromNamespace("file.info", "backports")
bp_file.info(file.path(R.home(), "COPYING"), extra_cols = FALSE)
#> size isdir mode mtime
#> /opt/R/4.4.1/lib/R/COPYING 18011 FALSE 644 2024-08-22 01:58:33
#> ctime atime
#> /opt/R/4.4.1/lib/R/COPYING 2024-10-28 16:47:00 2025-05-30 15:13:43