[R] Rd Files?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Wolski wrote:

> In the attachment are prompt and package.skeleton modified so that it
> works on windows 2000 too. It substitutes <- in file names = before
> writing if sys.info()["sysname"]=="Windows".

However, that is nowhere near sufficient: please take a look at the Perl
file `check' for a list of conditions you would need to fulfil on the file
names.  Did you actually try to find out what are valid filenames on your
half-implemented filesystem?  Did you consider what happens with names
which differ only by case?


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> On 12/1/2003 at 2:23 PM Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
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> >On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Wolski wrote:
> >
> >> If it does not matter how the name of the Rd file are, would it be
> >> difficult than to modify the package.skeleton function, so that it works
> >> under windows 2000 too?
> >
> >Why don't you try to do it and find out how difficult it is *for you*?

Too difficult ....

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