Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Wolski wrote: > > > In the attachment are prompt and package.skeleton modified so that it > > works on windows 2000 too. It substitutes <- in file names = before > > writing if sys.info()["sysname"]=="Windows". > > However, that is nowhere near sufficient: please take a look at the Perl > file `check' for a list of conditions you would need to fulfil on the file > names. Did you actually try to find out what are valid filenames on your > half-implemented filesystem? Did you consider what happens with names > which differ only by case? > > > > > >Why don't you try to do it and find out how difficult it is *for you*? > > Too difficult ....
Brian, if you pull any more, it will come off at the hip! Just one thing to add: If Wolski gets sufficiently annoyed to actually try and do this right, he'll want a naming scheme that works on *all* platforms, so branching on sys.info()["sysname"]=="Windows" is surely wrong. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
