typo in R-exts
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Tony Plate wrote:
The actual behavior, as far as I can make out, is that all the files in the 'tests' directory are copied, but not any subdirectories (which I personally would have found useful). So, saying the "whole directory" is probably not accurate.
I think it is: to copy subdirectories as well you need a recursive copy (cp -r), which Perl does not support in its base configuration. I'll see if I can add the latter for 2.6.0.
-- Tony Plate Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Tony Plate wrote:
There looks to be a typo in the R-exts manual:
The whose @file{tests} is copied to the check area, ...
^^^^^
I'm not sure what was intended here, so I can't suggest a fix.
'svn blame' tells me that this was Brian's addition in rev.35362. There is no previous version to help with guessing the intention. One possibility is that "The whose" should be "The directory", or maybe "The whole directory".
(from https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/doc/manual/R-exts.texi) -- Tony Plate
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