[Rd] checking for executable files ... WARNING

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, hadley wickham wrote:

> 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?

Always was, AFAIK.

>
> Hadley
>
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>

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