Message-ID: <23561.15485.544650.763051@rob.eddelbuettel.com>
Date: 2018-12-06T15:13:01Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: Dealing with .git folder when using R CMD INSTALL
In-Reply-To: <03bff17f-0f25-57e1-61da-1a2235da978b@daqana.com>
On 6 December 2018 at 15:59, Ralf Stubner wrote:
| On 06.12.18 15:19, Joris Meys wrote:
| > I know this R CMD build ignores these files and folders by default, but R
| > CMD INSTALL doesn't apparently.
|
| to me this is not apparent. I just tried "R CMD INSTALL ." in a package
| directory with a .git directory. This went without any problems. What do
| you observe?
Seconded. I joked off-list to Joris that this post failed to contain a MCVE
(== minimally complete verifiable example). Witness below -- two
installations from a directory containing .git yet none in the installed
directory. Could what you describe be particular to your OS or filesystem?
edd at rob:~/git/dang$ ls -a
. dang_0.0.7.tar.gz dang.Rproj .gitignore R .Rhistory
.. dang_0.0.8.tar.gz DESCRIPTION man .Rbuildignore .Rproj.user
ChangeLog dang.Rcheck .git NAMESPACE README.md .travis.yml
edd at rob:~/git/dang$ R CMD INSTALL .
* installing to library ?/usr/local/lib/R/site-library?
* installing *source* package ?dang? ...
** R
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (dang)
edd at rob:~/git/dang$ ls -a /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/dang/
. .. DESCRIPTION help html INDEX Meta NAMESPACE R
edd at rob:~/git/dang$ install.r
* installing *source* package found in current working directory ...
* installing *source* package ?dang? ...
** R
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (dang)
edd at rob:~/git/dang$ ls -a /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/dang/
. .. DESCRIPTION help html INDEX Meta NAMESPACE R
edd at rob:~/git/dang$
Dirk
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