Building Packages on Windows using .Rbuildignore (PR#7379)
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 01:54:53 +0000 (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck@myway.com> wrote:
Assuming that the behavior of the R CMD commands is changed so that they respect .Rbuildignore but that no flag or switch is immediately implemented to turn on and off .Rbuildignore processing
That's a premature assumption. At the moment it seems there are two other proposals on the table: - no change other than the bug fix. Then if you want to use .Rbuildignore, you use Rcmd build to make a tarball, and do everything else (check, build binary, etc.) from the tarball - some sort of change that allows you to turn .Rbuildignore on and off.
I have the following workaround to allow the user to implement either situation. It is simple enough that it does not require a script. I have not actually tried it out yet since the changed commands are not yet available.
It applies to Windows or UNIX but is described below relative to Windows and to an assumed folder tree called mypkg which is the folder that contains .Rbuildignore. 1. in Windows Explorer create a second folder called mypkg-shortcuts 2. select all files and folders directly within mypkg except .Rbuildignore and right-click drag them to mypkg-shortcuts selecting Create ShortCut after letting up on the right mouse button. That will create a shortcut to each file and folder in mypkg. (Note that the files and folders dragged include DESCRIPTION, R, man, etc. directly in mypkg but not the .files another level deep such as the .R and .Rd files within R and man.)
I don't think it will work in Windows. Windows shortcuts aren't soft links, they're just files that the shell sometimes interprets that way. Most other programs just see them as regular files, and won't know to use them as links. Duncan Murdoch