I was trying, on a Linux system, to get a .Rbuildignore file to work.
After far too long, I found the problem was the <CR><NL> line endings in
the .Rbuildignore file -- I had originally created it on a Windows
system, and emacs in Ubuntu was politely hiding that fact from me. The
patterns didn't work to exclude files because it was trying to match
filenames to patterns like "NOTES.txt^M".
I don't know what the best solution to this is, but I got it working by
putting a substitute command in the bin/build file like this:
while(<RBUILDIGNORE>) {
chomp;
s/^M$//;
push(@exclude_patterns, $_) if $_;
(When I cut and paste that code here it ends up as two separate
characters ^ and M, but in the bin/build file it's one <CR> character.)
One could of course say it is stupid user error to have <CR>'s in the
.Rbuildignore file, but it can happen easily, and it would nice if R
would work with it.
Could a fix for this little problem be incorporated into R?
thanks,
Tony Plate
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