Thanks for the response Peter.

I am dealing with this since I'm trying to indicate to the user if they had
their R installed properly or not, when upgrading R through the installr
package.
I think I'll simply remove these checks manually in the installr package.

Still, for the long run, it makes more sense to me to do as you propose and
simply stip those files from the checksums.

With regards,
Tal





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On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 12:11 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On May 17, 2013, at 20:01 , Tal Galili wrote:
>
> > Hello dear R-devel,
> >
> > I am not sure if this issue is tracked or not, but in case it isn't:
> > It appears that R 3.0.1 reproduces the error reported for R 3.0.0 here:
> >
> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-3-0-0-wrong-MD5-checksums-for-Windows-td4663348.html
> >
> > That is, that when installing R 3.0.1 on Windows 7, and then running:
> >
> > require(tools)
> > checkMD5sums(dir=R.home())
> >
> > It produces the error:
> > files ‘etc/Rconsole’, ‘etc/Rprofile.site’ have the wrong MD5 checksums
> > [1] FALSE
>
> As has been pointed out before, it is pretty much a non-issue. The Windows
> installer ships with md5 sums for some local configuration files and if
> they are locally configured or touched by the installer, the checksums will
> not match. checkMD5sums is for package checking, it is not documented to be
> used for checking R.home().
>
> Perhaps the Windows maintainer could strip those files from the checksums,
> but I wouldn't put it on high priority.
>
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