Building Packages on Windows using .Rbuildignore (PR#7379)

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:38:47 +0000 (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck@myway.com> wrote :
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN USING .RBUILDIGNORE AND NOT

The reason that the processing is different according to whether one
uses .Rbuildignore or not is that 
 R CMD build 
takes the .Rbuildignore file into account but 
 R CMD install
 R CMD check
 R CMD build --binary 
do not take .Rbuildignore into account.  
Okay, now I understand.  I think I'd call the last of those a bug, and
it would seem to me that the install and check scripts should also
respect this directive.   I've now copied this to the r-bugs list.
(This was reported for Windows; I don't know if it applies to other
platforms as well.)

Just for clarification:  I can see you would use this when you have
S-PLUS code in the same directory as R code, and you don't want to
include that in an R build.  Are there other files that must be
excluded?

Duncan Murdoch

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:38:47 +0000 (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck@myway.com> wrote :

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN USING .RBUILDIGNORE AND NOT

The reason that the processing is different according to whether one
uses .Rbuildignore or not is that 
R CMD build 
takes the .Rbuildignore file into account but 
R CMD install
R CMD check
R CMD build --binary 
do not take .Rbuildignore into account.  

Okay, now I understand.  I think I'd call the last of those a bug, and
it would seem to me that the install and check scripts should also
respect this directive.   I've now copied this to the r-bugs list.
(This was reported for Windows; I don't know if it applies to other
platforms as well.)

Just for clarification:  I can see you would use this when you have
S-PLUS code in the same directory as R code, and you don't want to
include that in an R build.  Are there other files that must be
excluded?
I'm not sure if you meant this as a Windows question. On Unix/Linux:
CVS for sure, and if you run things in you source directly and 
occassionaly get core dumps then it is pretty import to ignore them or 
you get very large packages. (Yes it would be better to clean up.) I 
also ignore several files that get generate compiling src code, or in 
some cases files that generate things that are included (For example, I 
generate man from a mansrc directory.) My  .Rbuildignore is

^Makefile$
(^|.*/)core$
(^|.*/)run$
(^|.*/)zot$
CVS
(^|.*/)/CVS$
(^|.*/)/(^|.*/)/CVS$
TMP$
FLAGS$
mansrc$
guidesrc$
zot$
run$
inst/doc/(^|.*)\.tex$
inst/doc/(^|.*)\.R$
inst/doc/(^|.*)\.log$
inst/doc/(^|.*)\.stdout$
exec/(^|.*)\.pro
exec/getpadi
exec/putpadi
exec/objectinfo
exec/padi_simple_svc
exec/getpwuid
exec/x11arima
exec/(^|.*)server.log.(^|.*)
data/create

Paul Gilbert
Duncan Murdoch

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