Rcmd install mypkg
On 10/1/2006 4:30 PM, hadley wickham wrote:
Requiring Perl script names to be specified in a case-sensitive way doesn't affect the R build process, but it does mean that a script written on Windows is slightly more likely to work when someone runs it on another platform. There's an "install" command in at least some flavours of Unix that would be invoked instead of R's INSTALL script if you said "R CMD install" on one of those platforms, and that's not a good thing.
Will this be changing on OS X too? My version of 2006-09-20 r39433 accepts either upper or lower case commands.
I think OS X uses the same scripts as other Unix platforms. So if they're happy working on a case-insensitive file system, it's unlikely we'll force a change, whether it would be a good idea or not. In fact, I'm fairly ambivalent about this one: I'm a long-time believer in case-insensitivity. I'd prefer if R were case-insensitive in all respects. However, it's not, so consistency pulls me to case-sensitivity. Duncan Murdoch