From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Sun Oct  1 19:10:20 2006
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:10:20 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg
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On 10/1/2006 7:20 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that
> command lines are case insensitive on Windows.

And command options use a / prefix in Windows, but a - or -- prefix in 
R, and the path separator in Windows is \ in most places, but / is 
accepted in R.  There are a large number of inconsistencies between 
Windows and other systems, and R mostly follows the GNU conventions; 
it's a GNU project, after all.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
>> On 9/30/2006 10:54 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>> I noticed that in "R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-16 r39365)" on Windows XP
>>> that I get this error:
>>>
>>> C:\Rpkgs>Rcmd install mypkg
>>> no Perl script 'install'
>>>
>>> The same command worked with no error in 2.3.1pat.  If I capitalize
>>> INSTALL it does work; however, this was not necessary previously.
>>>
>>> Note that
>>>
>>> C:\Rpkgs>Rcmd check mypkg
>>>
>>> unlike install, still works in either lower or upper case in 2.4.0 alpha.
>> This is a documented change--see the CHANGES file.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
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[Rd] Rcmd install mypkg
Duncan Murdoch