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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
