[R] Rd Files?

[Peter Dalgaard]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> 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?
> > >
> > >Why don't you try to do it and find out how difficult it is *for you*?
> 
> Too difficult ....

Brian, if you pull any more, it will come off at the hip! 

Just one thing to add: If Wolski gets sufficiently annoyed to actually
try and do this right, he'll want a naming scheme that works on *all*
platforms, so branching on sys.info()["sysname"]=="Windows" is surely
wrong. 

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