Hi Chris,
On 8 October 2006 at 06:35, Chris Lawrence wrote:
| Package: littler
| Version: 0.0.7-1
| Severity: minor
|
| I just discovered that 'r' is a zsh builtin command (it appears to
| repeat the previous command) - hence renaming the executable to
| 'littler' or some such on Linux/Unix may also be a good idea.
Jeff and I are rather fond of 'r' so we will continue to suggest that those
who can't use /usr/bin/r (eg OS X users, maybe now also hard-core zsh users)
build their own using the --program-prefix or --program-suffix option to
configure. That already works and is documented.
As for zsh and r vs /usr/bin/r: As maintainer of GNY time I have the exact
same issue that people who type 'time' under bash are confused when they do
not get the /usr/bin/time functionality but rather the bash builtin one. The
fix is the same: use the explicit path (here call /usr/bin/r on the shell,
or, I suppose, create an alias).
Our main focus is scripting for R and /usr/bin/r/ is fine on Linux/Unix so I
guess we won't change the name.
Thanks for the report. I will leave it open for a bit longer to discuss, but
I think we are likely to close this eventually.
Thanks, Dirk
|
| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: testing/unstable
| APT prefers testing
| APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
| Architecture: i386 (i686)
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
| Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
| Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
|
| Versions of packages littler depends on:
| ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
| ii r-base-core 2.3.1-3 GNU R core of statistical
computin
|
| littler recommends no packages.
|
| -- no debconf information
|
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