Peter Dalgaard writes:
>
> OK, that I can confirm. They do turn up on a checkout without the -P
> option, but disappear after "cvs up -Pd". Tony, Debbie, did you
> perhaps configure before attempting to prune the empty dirs? Could you
> try
>
> cvs -d ...blabla... co -P R
I've use rsync; I don't know if that makes any difference:
rsync -rC rsync.r-project.org::r-devel R
In any case, I deleted all the old source code and started over,
and the development version emerged without any difficulty.
Thanks for helping me think about this.
Debby