From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Oct 20 08:51:27 2008
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:51:27 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] R CMD build on Vista
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Ollivier TARAMASCO wrote:

> Hello,
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> I have R 2.7.2 and RTools 2.8 on a vista pro computer. On my computer R CMD
> build changes the file names : all capital letters are transformed into
> lowercase letters (for instance the DESCRIPTION file is changed in
> 'description'). What can I do to correct this problem?

Use a less unreliable OS?

The copying is done in Perl, and so is out of our control.  This may 
depend on the file system, and I've not seen this (nor have others 
reported it), except on Samba-mounted file systems, about which the FAQ 
says

   Your file system must allow case-honouring long file names (as is likely
   except perhaps for some network-mounted systems).

So sorry, unless that is the explanation this is beyond our control.

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> Tank you,
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> Ollivier TARAMASCO
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[Rd] R CMD build on Vista
Prof Brian Ripley