From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Sun Oct  1 14:53:30 2006
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 08:53:30 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg
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On 10/1/06, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
>
>
> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that
> > command lines are case insensitive on Windows.
>
> This is an improvement. R tries to be as unique as possible on all
> platforms.

Not sure what the above means but if you mean it works the same
on all platforms that is an error in the design of the software in my view.
The objective should be that it fits into the environment its working in.

Any Windows user can tell the difference between "clunky" UNIX-derived
software which does not feel right on the Windows platform and
software that adapts its interface to work like all other Windows programs
in that environment.

>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
> > 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
Gabor Grothendieck