[R-SIG-Mac] hidden files and directories

[David Winsemius]

On Aug 5, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Rohmatul Fajriyah wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I tried to build an R package (from the terminal) and everything was ok until R CMD check PackageName and I got this message:
> ......
> * checking for hidden files and directories ... NOTE
> Found the following hidden files and directories:
>   .DS_Store
>   man/.Rapp.history

Those files would both be invisible when using the Finder.app unless you used ls in a terminal session, but I guess you figured that out


> These were most likely included in error. See section ‘Package
> structure’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
> ......
> 
> I, then:
> a. went through the archives of this mailing list (until January 2011) and I could not find a similar problem.
> (apologise, if I missed it)

In 2008 it was reported in the NEWS for R 2.7.1 that:

http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.r-project.r-help+DS_Store#query:list%3Aorg.r-project.r-help%20DS_Store+page:1+mid:cx3hryqssis2slx7+state:results

o R CMD build tries harder to clean up the inst/doc directory from the remnants of earlier builds.

It also removes any directories with extension .Rcheck, and files .DS_Store and ._* (created by tar on Mac OS X under some circumstances: it now sets environment variables to ask for such files not to be created by that tar.)

So we need to ask if this was just a warning message. It appears that there are mechanisms in place to remove those files.

(It's arguably an R-devel topic.)
-- 
David.
> b. followed the advice at here http://thecoatlessprofessor.com/blog/2013/07/updating-the-visualize-rpackage and http://guides.macrumors.com/Viewing_hidden_files_on_a_Mac
> c. read this http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html
> 
> But still, I can't solve the problem. I am new in using Mac terminal.
> 
> I have built a trial package previously and not encountered with this problem when it came in to this step (check package).
> 
> Any help, is really appreciated.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.
> 
> With kind regards,
> Ema
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David Winsemius
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