From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Apr 18 18:19:50 2007
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:19:50 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] typo in R-exts
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Tony Plate wrote:

> The actual behavior, as far as I can make out, is that all the files in
> the 'tests' directory are copied, but not any subdirectories (which I
> personally would have found useful).
>
> So, saying the "whole directory" is probably not accurate.

I think it is: to copy subdirectories as well you need a recursive copy 
(cp -r), which Perl does not support in its base configuration.
I'll see if I can add the latter for 2.6.0.

>
> -- Tony Plate
>
> Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>> Tony Plate wrote:
>>> There looks to be a typo in the R-exts manual:
>>>
>>> The whose @file{tests} is copied to the check area, ...
>>>      ^^^^^
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what was intended here, so I can't suggest a fix.
>>>
>> 'svn blame' tells me that this was Brian's addition in rev.35362. There
>> is no previous version to help with guessing the intention. One
>> possibility is that "The whose" should be "The directory", or maybe "The
>> whole directory".
>>> (from https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/doc/manual/R-exts.texi)
>>>
>>> -- Tony Plate
>>>
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[Rd] typo in R-exts
Prof Brian Ripley