"S Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Plaintive squeak: Why the change? > > Some OS's and desktops use the extension, so forgetting it causes > trouble. The new default filename keeps a filetype (as before) but the > user now has to type a filetype twice (once as the type, once as > extension) to get the same effect fo rtheir own filenames. And the > extension isn't then checked for consistency with valid file types, so > it can be mistyped and saved with no warning. Hard to see the advantage > of doing away with it...
Just for the record. . . This change broke a *lot* of my code, including code used by others. Windows depends on file extensions. Fortunately, fixes using getRversion are not too difficult. -- Mike Prager, NOAA, Beaufort, NC * Opinions expressed are personal and not represented otherwise. * Any use of tradenames does not constitute a NOAA endorsement. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
