From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Sun Oct  1 19:23:46 2006
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:23:46 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg
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On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 10/1/2006 7:20 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that
> > command lines are case insensitive on Windows.
>
> And command options use a / prefix in Windows, but a - or -- prefix in
> R, and the path separator in Windows is \ in most places, but / is
> accepted in R.  There are a large number of inconsistencies between
> Windows and other systems, and R mostly follows the GNU conventions;
> it's a GNU project, after all.

That's not a bad point but is there really any reason to make it even
less windows-like?  After all, it did work in either case before and
windows filenames are case insensitive so its not like there is
a valid distinction between install and INSTALL if the word refers
to a filename.

>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> >
> > 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