[Rd] overriding built in Rbuildignore values

[Dr Gregory Jefferis]

Dear All,

Is there a way to override the default entries in

tools::get_exclude_patterns()

When checking an R package.

R 4.5.1 now has an entry

"\\.sw.$"

Instead of

"\\.swp$"

In earlier versions. This was associated with https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/7bc89c8ab13003238d4b2e6f732a8a537255031d / SVN commit 87718 which hoped to exclude private emacs/vim files.

Unfortunately the change also catches  *.swc files – the standard format for representing the shape of neurons in neuroscience which are used for tests in my package https://cran.r-project.org/package=nat.

Many thanks for any pointers,

Greg.

PS @Dirk Eddelbuettel if you'll forgive me, I am ccing directly as looks like the patch was yours.

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Gregory Jefferis
Division of Neurobiology
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Francis Crick Avenue
Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Cambridge, CB2 OQH, UK

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