Writing R-extensions
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Berwin A Turlach wrote:
G'day all, After reading through "Writing R Extensions", Version 2.1.1 (2005-06-20), I thought the the following points might need clarifications or corrections. (I checked that these comments also hold for "Writing R Extensions", Version 2.2.0.)
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2) The description of the `inst' subdirectory states:
Subdirectories of @file{inst} should not interfere with those
used by R (currently, @file{R}, @file{data}, @file{demo},
@file{exec}, @file{libs}, @file{man}, @file{help},
@file{html}, @file{latex}, @file{R-ex}, and @file{Meta}).
And I wonder whether this list is incomplete. Should not, with the
introduction of localisation, at least @file{po} be listed too?
Nope. po is not copied across, and inst _is_ used to install message catalogues. So inst/po is quite to be expected. (The difference is that po contains sources of translations, and inst/po contains compiled translations. The naming is a bit different too (we didn't invent this).) Probably chtml should be added to cater for Windows which (optionally) uses it.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595