Re: [Rd] R CMD build now removes empty dirs

2011-04-11 Thread Martin Maechler
Pages, Herve hpa...@fhcrc.org on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:56:47 -0700 (PDT) writes: Hi, It's unfortunate that with recent revisions of R 2.13 (this appeared in revision 54640, March 2), 'R CMD build' now removes empty dirs in the package. People might have good reasons for

Re: [Rd] R CMD build now removes empty dirs

2011-04-10 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi Henrik, Just to clarify, you still have the ability of installing directory structures that are partly empty. Actually 'R CMD INSTALL pkgpath/' does this. And if srctarball.tar.gz contains empty dirs, 'R CMD INSTALL srctarball.tar.gz' will also keep them. The problem is that *by default* 'R

[Rd] R CMD build now removes empty dirs

2011-03-30 Thread Pages, Herve
Hi, It's unfortunate that with recent revisions of R 2.13 (this appeared in revision 54640, March 2), 'R CMD build' now removes empty dirs in the package. People might have good reasons for having empty dirs in their packages. For example, in Bioconductor, we have some tools to automatically

Re: [Rd] R CMD build now removes empty dirs

2011-03-30 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
I am also in favor for keeping the ability of installing directory structures that are partly empty. I've used it before to setup templates that can conveniently be copied recursively to a local path. I did noticed that R CMD INSTALL gave a warning about empty directories before (or was it a