[Rd] checking for executable files ... WARNING

[hadley wickham]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Is this suggested best practice now?

Hadley

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