[Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sun Oct 1 13:20:04 CEST 2006


This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that
command lines are case insensitive on Windows.

On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 9/30/2006 10:54 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > I noticed that in "R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-16 r39365)" on Windows XP
> > that I get this error:
> >
> > C:\Rpkgs>Rcmd install mypkg
> > no Perl script 'install'
> >
> > The same command worked with no error in 2.3.1pat.  If I capitalize
> > INSTALL it does work; however, this was not necessary previously.
> >
> > Note that
> >
> > C:\Rpkgs>Rcmd check mypkg
> >
> > unlike install, still works in either lower or upper case in 2.4.0 alpha.
>
> This is a documented change--see the CHANGES file.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>




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