From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk  Tue Nov  2 12:31:04 2004
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Tue Nov  2 12:31:36 2004
Subject: [Rd] Re: [R] case-insensitive ZIP
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.041102100326.Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
References: <XFMail.041102100326.Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <x27jp4h4hz.fsf@biostat.ku.dk>

(Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> writes:

> On 02-Nov-04 Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> > [...]
> > [Analogously, R CMD INSTALL will not install .tgz files on Unix,
> > even though some people distribute them: they are (equally) not
> > a supported format.]
> 
> Maybe I'm out of date (R 1.8.0) but my Linux /usr/lib/R/bin/INSTALL
> has:

You are, but it still has...
 
>       if test -f "${1}"; then
>         pkgname=`basename "${1}"`
>         ## Also allow for 'package.tgz' ...
>         pkgname=`basename "${pkgname}" .tgz`

I don't think an unversioned .tar.gz file survives that treatment
though. 

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[Rd] Re: [R] case-insensitive ZIP
Peter Dalgaard