[Rd] Dealing with .git folder when using R CMD INSTALL

Joris Meys jori@mey@ @ending from gm@il@com
Thu Dec 6 15:53:20 CET 2018


On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, 15:37 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org wrote:

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> These have been auto-ignored by R CMD build for a loooooong time. Are you
> maybe making the mistake of installing from a _directory_ as opposed to
> first
> creating a tarball?
>
> Dirk
>
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That's indeed what devtools::install () and BiocCheck () are doing, and I
wondered if R CMD INSTALL could be made to ignore at least those.

Thx for the confirmation
Cheers
Joris

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