Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck <at> myway.com> writes: > > Duncan Murdoch <murdoch <at> stats.uwo.ca> writes: > > : > : On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 03:47:50 +0000 (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck > : <ggrothendieck <at> myway.com> wrote: > : > : >Duncan Murdoch <murdoch <at> stats.uwo.ca> writes: > : > > : >> > : >> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:39:17 +0000 (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck > : >> <ggrothendieck <at> myway.com> wrote: > : >> > : >> >: Even with this change, Rcmd check is still going to install the files > : >> >: it's supposed to ignore, because it uses Rcmd INSTALL, and there's no > : >> >: .Rbuildignore support there. > : >> >: > : >> > > : >> >If the behaviour is suddenly changed then this is going to cause work > : >> >for people whose scripts depend on the current behavior. > : >> > : >> Yes, that's normal. If you work around a bug and the bug gets fixed, > : >> then you will need to change your code. That's why the NEWS file > : >> reports bug fixes and other changes.
Assuming that the behavior of the R CMD commands is changed so that they respect .Rbuildignore but that no flag or switch is immediately implemented to turn on and off .Rbuildignore processing I have the following workaround to allow the user to implement either situation. It is simple enough that it does not require a script. I have not actually tried it out yet since the changed commands are not yet available. It applies to Windows or UNIX but is described below relative to Windows and to an assumed folder tree called mypkg which is the folder that contains .Rbuildignore. 1. in Windows Explorer create a second folder called mypkg-shortcuts 2. select all files and folders directly within mypkg except .Rbuildignore and right-click drag them to mypkg-shortcuts selecting Create ShortCut after letting up on the right mouse button. That will create a shortcut to each file and folder in mypkg. (Note that the files and folders dragged include DESCRIPTION, R, man, etc. directly in mypkg but not the .files another level deep such as the .R and .Rd files within R and man.) 3. now run off mypkg if the .Rbuildignore version is wanted and run off mypkg-shortcuts if not. Any time a file in mypkg is changed in mypkg it will automatically change in mypkg-shortcuts since they are all links. (Special care should be taken if files are added or deleted immediately within mypkg; however, this is relatively rare since no source or documentation is there.) Note that the R and man folders within mypkg-shortcuts are themselves links to the corresponding folders in mypkg so that any change that occurs in mypkg\R and mypkg\man will automatically be reflected in the mypkg-shortcuts versions. ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel