[R-sig-Debian] [Rd] Command completion of the R binary / Ubuntu

[Deepayan Sarkar]

Hi,

Sorry for the delay, but this is finally updated (with many more
changes) in SVN to be consistent with R 2.15.0-to-be.

-Deepayan

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 11 January 2012 at 17:33, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> | On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Claudia Beleites
> | <claudia.beleites at ipht-jena.de> wrote:
> | > Dear Deepayan and dear list,
> | >
> | > I notice a small inconsistency with the command completion of the R CMD
> | > check. --no-latex is deprecated sincs R 2.12.0 and defunct since 2.13.0
> | > but the command line completion still suggests it:
> | >
> | > cb at cbdesktop:~/r-devel$ bin/R CMD check --no-<here I hit tab>
> | > --no-clean      --no-examples   --no-latex      --no-vignettes
> | > --no-codoc      --no-install    --no-tests
> | > cb at cbdesktop:~/r-devel$ bin/R CMD check --no-latex
> | > Fehler: '--no-latex' is defunct: use '--no-manual' instead
> | >
> | > I gather the command line options could be updated to current R CMD
> | > check in file /etc/bash_completion.d/R:
> | >
> | > cb at cbdesktop:~/tmp$ diff R /etc/bash_completion.d/R
> | > 244,247c244,245
> | > <                   --no-install --no-tests --no-vignettes --no-manual \
> | > <           --no-rebuild-vignettes --install-args  --check-subdirs \
> | > <           --extra-arch --multiarch --no-multiarch --force-multiarch \
> | > <                   --timings  --use-gct --use-valgrind --rcfile"
> | > ---
> | >>                   --no-install --no-tests --no-vignettes --no-latex \
> | >>                   --use-gct --use-valgrind --rcfile"
> | >
> | > I gather from the mailing list archives, that the original is available at
> | > http://code.google.com/p/rcompletion/source/browse/trunk/bash_completion/R
> | >
> | > Should I suggest the patch there? Will changes propagate to the packaged
> | > linux distributions from there or should the updated file be brought to
> | > the attention somewhere else?
> |
> | Thanks for the patch.
> |
> | I believe only Debian/Ubuntu package it (and this would have been more
> | appropriate for r-sig-debian). I'll coordinate with Dirk et al to
> | update the relevant files.
>
> That is indeed almost entirely a Deepayan (juicy code) and Dirk (mere
> packaging) issue as the rest (Ubuntun etc) just follows from there.  And
> r-sig-debian would indeed have been a good venue too.  But posting here makes
> it a nice reminder to everybody not using the .deb package about what they
> are missing :)
>
> Dirk
>
> | -Deepayan
> |
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