[Rd] overriding built in Rbuildignore values

[Dr Gregory Jefferis]

Thanks for the suggestions, Dirk and also Ivan. Given that this change is in the released version of R I'll have to go with a workaround for now even if the regex can be updated. It would be great if the regex could be updated because I think the new one really does catch more than it should.

The workaround is quite a dance because it means that I have to do a setup/teardown before my tests. I can do this once for the whole test suite, but then it means that I can't conveniently run individual tests during development. I have tens of separate tests using these files so running a setup/teardown for each individual test would require a significant amount of additional code tweaking.

Best wishes,

Greg.

On 7 Aug 2025, at 20:11, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> PS: There is a bit of discussion of this (for vim) at [1] with the general
> rule(s) and a code snippet from vim. One suggestion is to use '*.sw[g-p]' to
> spare .swf files for Flash [2]. So we could honour your .swc via '*.sw[d-p]'.
>
> But it seems to me that you may still be better off avoiding this by renaming
> or archiving these files.  Thoughts?
>
> Dirk
>
>
> [1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/326707/vim-what-are-all-the-possible-swapfile-extensions
> [2] It's an old discussion
>
> -- 
> dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd using debian.org


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