[Rd] R CMD Rd2dvi

[Robin Hankin]

Hello

perhaps this is a bit late for R-2.5.0,
but does anyone find R CMD Rd2dvi refusing
to overwrite an existing dvi file useful?

I am forever leaving the .dvi file in
my scratch directory and have to
remove it manually.

I know that one can specify --output=f.dvi,
but this just defers the problem
because f.dvi won't be overwritten either.

Does anyone value this behaviour?

If not, could we change it?


For me, the typical session goes:

octopus:~/scratch% R CMD Rd2dvi ./BACCO
Hmm ... looks like a package bundle
file 'BACCO.dvi' exists; please remove first

octopus:~/scratch% rm BACCO.dvi
octopus:~/scratch% R CMD Rd2dvi ./BACCO
Hmm ... looks like a package bundle
[snip].






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Robin Hankin
Uncertainty Analyst
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