[Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 10/1/2006 4:30 PM, hadley wickham wrote:
>> Requiring Perl script names to be specified in a case-sensitive way
>> doesn't affect the R build process, but it does mean that a script
>> written on Windows is slightly more likely to work when someone runs it
>> on another platform.  There's an "install" command in at least some
>> flavours of Unix that would be invoked instead of R's INSTALL script if
>> you said "R CMD install" on one of those platforms, and that's not a
>> good thing.
> 
> Will this be changing on OS X too?  My version of 2006-09-20 r39433
> accepts either upper or lower case commands.

I think OS X uses the same scripts as other Unix platforms.  So if 
they're happy working on a case-insensitive file system, it's unlikely 
we'll force a change, whether it would be a good idea or not.

In fact, I'm fairly ambivalent about this one:  I'm a long-time believer 
in case-insensitivity.  I'd prefer if R were case-insensitive in all 
respects.  However, it's not, so consistency pulls me to case-sensitivity.

Duncan Murdoch