Re: [Rd] Base R examples that write to current working directory

2018-04-04 Thread Martin Maechler
> Gabe Becker > on Tue, 3 Apr 2018 21:16:12 -0700 writes: > Martin et al, > I have submitted a patch on bugzilla which fixes all of the examples I > could easily find which were not already writing only to temporary files or > switching to a temp directory before writ

Re: [Rd] Base R examples that write to current working directory

2018-04-04 Thread Gabe Becker
Martin et al, I have submitted a patch on bugzilla which fixes all of the examples I could easily find which were not already writing only to temporary files or switching to a temp directory before writing files to the working directory. https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17403 P

Re: [Rd] Base R examples that write to current working directory

2018-04-03 Thread Martin Maechler
> Henrik Bengtsson > on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 10:14:04 -0700 writes: > So, the proposal would then be to write to tempdir(), > correct? If so, I see three alternatives: > 1. explicitly use file.path(tempdir(), filename), or > tempfile() everywhere. I think it should clea

Re: [Rd] Base R examples that write to current working directory

2018-03-30 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
So, the proposal would then be to write to tempdir(), correct? If so, I see three alternatives: 1. explicitly use file.path(tempdir(), filename), or tempfile() everywhere. 2. wrap example code in a withTempDir({ ... }) call. 3. Add an 'eval.path' (*) argument to example() and make it default to

Re: [Rd] Base R examples that write to current working directory

2018-03-30 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 30.03.2018 00:08, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 29/03/2018 5:23 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: Hi all, Given the recent CRAN push to prevent examples writing to the working directory, is there any interest in fixing base R examples that write to the working directory? A few candidates are the graphi

Re: [Rd] Base R examples that write to current working directory

2018-03-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 29/03/2018 5:23 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: Hi all, Given the recent CRAN push to prevent examples writing to the working directory, is there any interest in fixing base R examples that write to the working directory? A few candidates are the graphics devices, file.create(), writeBin(), writeCh