From deepayan.sarkar at gmail.com  Tue Apr 29 00:22:12 2008
From: deepayan.sarkar at gmail.com (Deepayan Sarkar)
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:22:12 -0700
Subject: [Rd] R-Forge SVN repositories: R CMD build/check error on
	Windows machines
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On 4/28/08, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> The difference is in INSTALL, not build/check.
>
>  You are right that the Unix INSTALL was changed in r25808 (Aug 2003), but
> AFAICS this was not documented at the time in [O]NEWS, nor anywhere else.
>
>  Can you point me to the documentation you used to implement this?

FWIW, the NEWS for 2.5.0 [1] has

    o	R CMD build now takes the package name from the DESCRIPTION
	file and not from the directory.  (PR#9266)

and that does seem to work on Windows.

[1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2007/000828.html

-Deepayan



[Rd] R-Forge SVN repositories: R CMD build/check error on Windows machines
Deepayan Sarkar