Re: [R-pkg-devel] File name error

2017-12-21 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Uwe/Kurt, is this controlled by R itself or by the host system? I suspect one of my R.filesets tests(*) fails (since a few days) because of this, but it might actually be a false positive. I fail to reproduce it on Ubuntu 16.04 with: * using R Under development (unstable) (2017-12-20 r73933) *

Re: [R-pkg-devel] File name error

2017-12-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Cristine, On 21 December 2017 at 08:21, Blume Christine wrote: | I also had troubles with debian (Fedora only gave warnings) May I ask you to be a little more careful in your attribution? Yes, it is too that the instance labeleb 'r-devel-debian' gave you an error. But that was not because of

Re: [R-pkg-devel] File name error

2017-12-21 Thread Uwe Ligges
This is a new check: You must not write into the user's filespace without explicit agreement by the user (by specifying path/name). Note that some users won't even have permissions to write into the package's installation directory if that is set up site wide by an admin, for example. So

Re: [R-pkg-devel] File name error

2017-12-21 Thread Blume Christine
Hi Cathy, I also had troubles with debian (Fedora only gave warnings) and no problems with other systems. Mine was related to me writing a file (or rather trying to write) in a working directory other than tempdir (can be retrieved by tempdir()). I now write it to tempdir and then set the old