Thanks, Kurt. I think I now have enough time to write a patch. What are the steps? I have read https://www.r-project.org/bugs.html#how-to-submit-patches but I do not seem to have permission to create a Bugzilla account at https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/.
Will On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 2:46 AM Kurt Hornik <kurt.hor...@wu.ac.at> wrote: > >>>>> Will L writes: > > > To R-devel, > > In `R CMD build`, the ID of the user is automatically inserted into the > > DESCRIPTION file, e.g. > > > Packaged: 2018-11-06 14:01:50 UTC; <MY USER ID> > > > > This is problematic for those of us who work in corporate settings. We > must > > not divulge our user IDs in the packages we develop and release. > > > Jim Hester pointed out that these two lines in > > `add_build_stamp_to_description_file()` > > < > https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/521c90a175d67475b9f1b43d7ae68bc48062d8e6/src/library/tools/R/build.R#L170-L171 > > > > are responsible. Could we consider his suggestion of using an optional > > environment variable to overwrite the default behavior? > > > user <- Sys.getenv("R_BUILD_USERNAME") > > if (!nzchar(user)) user <- Sys.info()["user"] > > if(user == "unknown") user <- Sys.getenv("LOGNAME") > > Yep, something along these lines should be possible. > R_BUILD_USER or R_BUILD_LOGNAME may seem more natural though ... > > Best > -k > > > > > Will Landau > > -- > > wlandau.github.io > > linkedin.com/in/wlandau > > github.com/wlandau > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- wlandau.github.io linkedin.com/in/wlandau github.com/wlandau [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
