From bhh at xs4all.nl  Mon Aug 27 10:10:11 2012
From: bhh at xs4all.nl (Berend Hasselman)
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:10:11 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Hidden files in source packages
In-Reply-To: <503B25B8.3030202@stats.ox.ac.uk>
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Message-ID: <2AAE6B3C-4BF8-42E3-A83C-88D8FF06951F@xs4all.nl>


On 27-08-2012, at 09:46, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> R-devel has been warning for some time about hidden files (in the Unix sense, starting with a period) in source packages.   We could get R CMD build and the CRAN incoming scripts to remove these *if* we knew that they were never needed.
> 
> It seems clear that
> 
> .Rapp.history
> .Rhistory
> .Rbuildindex.xxxxx
> inst/doc/.build.timestamp
> 
> are R leftovers,
> 
> ._.DS_store
> 
> is from an Apple filesystem and
> 
> .tex .log .aux .pdf .png
> 
> are junk (as file names, not extensions).
> 
> However, is there ever any reason for any of
> 
> .Renviron
> .Rprofile
> .Rproj.user
> .backups
> .cvsignore
> .cproject
> .directory
> .dropbox
> .exrc
> .gdb.history
> .gitattributes
> .gitignore
> .gitmodules
> .hgignore
> .hqtags

Isn't that .hgtags?

> .htaccess
> .latex2html-init
> .project
> .seed
> .settings
> 
> to be in a source package tarball?  (For some of these it is not clear where they come from since there are multiple possible origins.)

You can add

.tm_properties

to this list (settings file of TextMate 2 on Mac OS X)

Berend



[Rd] Hidden files in source packages
Berend Hasselman