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

2018-03-30 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