On 22-03-2013, at 21:26, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 22 March 2013 at 21:03, Berend Hasselman wrote: > | I am running R CMD check on my package nleqslv with R-3.0.0 beta > (2013-03-33 r62364) on Mac OS X 10.6.8 > | > | In contrast with R-2.15.3 R CMD check now issues a note for > | > | - Mercurial version control files .hgignore, .hgtags and directory .hg. > These are however included in .hidden_file_exclusions. > | - typical Mac Finder files .DS_Store > | > | All of these are ignored when executing R CMD check --as-cran. > | > | I can't remove the .hg* files and directories. I could remove the .DS_Store > files to avoid the note. > > A few years ago the "Right Way To Do Things" changed. You are really > supposed to do 'R CMD check' off the tar.gz, and you *do* have a toggle to > exclude what goes into the tar.gz: .Rbuildignore >
which I have. And making a .tar.gz will ignore the version control files. So why not ignore them when doing a check on a (allowed) package directory? >From R CMD check --help Usage: R CMD check [options] pkgs Check R packages from package sources, which can be directories or package 'tar' archives with extension '.tar.gz', '.tar.bz2', '.tar.xz' or '.tgz'. So a directory is allowed. > | The note is harmless but annoying and strikes me as slightly overzealous. > > So are are many other warnings. > It's a note and not a warning. > But in the long run I am happy they are there so that eg my system does not > get polluted with your .hg and .DS_Store files which are of zero use to me. > My .hg and .DS_Store files will not pollute your system. Berend > Warnings are your friends. Be nice to them. > > Dirk > > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
