[Rd] checking for executable files ... WARNING

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Nov 18 08:31:22 CET 2008


On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, hadley wickham wrote:

> In R 2.8. I get the following warning when checking my package:
>
> * checking for executable files ... WARNING
> Found the following executable file(s):
>  .git/objects/00/12947a4bb4379fb0c3bed740314a9f4ac72331
>  .git/objects/00/21fac22a57a1567389ed34a9dc4f465c6cfd01
>  .git/objects/00/29da5c289489fdb2249e19f4b165ff5b37b3e6
>  .git/objects/00/36ad7f586eeac250e6609a1bf938e545101cb0
> ... (for about 300 lines)
>
> I've tried putting .git in my .Rbuildignore, but this doesn't help the
> problem.  Any ideas?

Does 'R CMD build' a tarball and then 'R CMD check' not solve this?
'build' skips git files, and you only need to worry about executables in 
a tarball you ship.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Hadley
>
> -- 
> http://had.co.nz/

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