From vangyzen at stat.duke.edu  Thu Sep 16 17:11:20 2004
From: vangyzen at stat.duke.edu (Eric van Gyzen)
Date: Thu Sep 16 17:11:25 2004
Subject: [Rd] R CMD INSTALL doesn't always clean up (PR#7230)
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Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 1) Please give us a reproducible example, as asked in the FAQ.

R CMD INSTALL --help
R CMD INSTALL --version
R CMD INSTALL
R CMD INSTALL nonexistent
R CMD INSTALL existent-but-invalid.tar.gz

...and every other case in which "exit" is called without a preceding 
do_cleanup().

> 2) We are in alpha test, near beta test, of R 2.0.0, so please check your 
> examples under the public alphas of R 2.0.0.

I tested the snapshot from today (2004-09-16).

> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 vangyzen@stat.duke.edu wrote:
> 
> 
>>Full_Name: Eric van Gyzen
>>Version: 1.9.1
>>OS: FreeBSD
>>Submission from: (NULL) (152.3.22.120)
>>
>>
>>In several cases, "R CMD INSTALL" doesn't remove its temporary directory.  It
>>should call "do_cleanup" before every "exit".
> 
> 
> Perhaps those cases are deliberate?
> 

-- 
Eric van Gyzen                        Sr. Systems Programmer
http://www.stat.duke.edu/~vangyzen/   ISDS, Duke University


[Rd] R CMD INSTALL doesn't always clean up (PR#7230)
Eric van Gyzen