dos-style line endings in .Rbuildignore result in files not being excluded

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:46:36 -0400,

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

But to the point: how often do people get DOS-style files on a
Unix-alike? You have to work pretty hard to do this, and there comes
a point at which complicating R to workaround wrongly encoded files
is not worth the trouble.  Let's see if anyone else reports having
done this.

In my experience, this is a common occurrence.

I think so too.  Too often I get files from other people that were
encoded in different systems, so EOL can be a source of grief.  Most of
the time they are DOS (M$), so I got in the habit of using the tofromdos
tools for DOS <-> Unix EOL issues because this is a problem I'd rather
fix for the whole file system, rather than a particular task in R.

Seb