[Rd] different behaviour of R INSTALL on Linux/Windows

[Uwe Ligges]

Example: CDNmoney_2003.9-2.tar.gz (in the archives section of CRAN)

The package maintainer forgot to remove the subdirectory ./data/create. 
Nevertheless,
   R INSTALL CDNmoney
works smoothly on UNix/Linux by just omitting that directory.
On Windows we get:


---------- Making package CDNmoney ------------
   adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
   installing R files
   installing demos
   installing inst files
   installing data files
cp: omitting directory `data/create'
make[2]: *** [t:/R/library/CDNmoney/data] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [pkg-CDNmoney] Error 2
*** Installation of CDNmoney failed ***


I think it is desirable to unify. The question is which way... Opinions?

Uwe Ligges

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Version:
  platform = i386-pc-mingw32
  arch = i386
  os = mingw32
  system = i386, mingw32
  status =
  major = 1
  minor = 9.0
  year = 2004
  month = 04
  day = 12
  language = R

Windows NT 4.0 (build 1381) Service Pack 6

Search Path:
  .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics, 
package:utils, Autoloads, package:base