[Rd] R CMD check in R-3.0.0 gives warnings

[Berend Hasselman]

On 22-03-2013, at 21:26, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

> 
> On 22 March 2013 at 21:03, Berend Hasselman wrote:
> | I am running R CMD check on my package nleqslv with R-3.0.0 beta (2013-03-33 r62364) on Mac OS X 10.6.8
> | 
> | In contrast with R-2.15.3 R CMD check now issues a note for 
> | 
> | - Mercurial version control files .hgignore, .hgtags and directory .hg. These are however included in .hidden_file_exclusions.
> | - typical Mac Finder files .DS_Store
> | 
> | All of these are ignored when executing R CMD check --as-cran.
> | 
> | I can't remove the .hg* files and directories. I could remove the .DS_Store files to avoid the note.
> 
> A few years ago the "Right Way To Do Things" changed.  You are really
> supposed to do 'R CMD check' off the tar.gz, and you *do* have a toggle to
> exclude what goes into the tar.gz:   .Rbuildignore
> 

which I have. And making a .tar.gz will ignore the version control files. So why not ignore them when doing a check on a (allowed) package directory?

From  R CMD check --help
Usage: R CMD check [options] pkgs

Check R packages from package sources, which can be directories or
package 'tar' archives with extension '.tar.gz', '.tar.bz2',
'.tar.xz' or '.tgz'.

So a directory is allowed.

> | The note is harmless but annoying and strikes me as slightly overzealous.
> 
> So are are many other warnings. 
> 

It's a note and not a warning.

> But in the long run I am happy they are there so that eg my system does not
> get polluted with your .hg and .DS_Store files which are of zero use to me.
> 

My .hg and .DS_Store files will not pollute your system.

Berend

> Warnings are your friends. Be nice to them.
> 
> Dirk
> 
> 
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