The actual behavior, as far as I can make out, is that all the files in the 'tests' directory are copied, but not any subdirectories (which I personally would have found useful).
So, saying the "whole directory" is probably not accurate. -- Tony Plate Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Tony Plate wrote: >> There looks to be a typo in the R-exts manual: >> >> The whose @file{tests} is copied to the check area, ... >> ^^^^^ >> >> I'm not sure what was intended here, so I can't suggest a fix. >> > 'svn blame' tells me that this was Brian's addition in rev.35362. There > is no previous version to help with guessing the intention. One > possibility is that "The whose" should be "The directory", or maybe "The > whole directory". >> (from https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/doc/manual/R-exts.texi) >> >> -- Tony Plate >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel