It does this via an exclude list which it uses to remove files from a staged build. Printing out the exclude list (at ca line 232) should be informative. One possibility is simply that there is a permissions issue in deleting that directory.
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Michael Lawrence wrote: > Hi, > > In my package RGtk2, there's a directory called 'src/RGtk2' that contains, > like all the other directories in the package, a '.svn' directory. It seems > that R CMD build is somehow missing that one '.svn' in 'src/RGtk2', even > though it excludes all the other instances of '.svn'. > > I've tried putting 'src/RGtk2/.svn' into the .Rbuildignore, but it does not > have any effect. I've also looked into the R CMD build script, but I can't > find where this problem might occur (but then again, perl is not exactly my > thing). Perhaps it has something to do with having a directory with the same > name as the package under the 'src' directory? Pretty unlikely. > Thanks for the help, > Michael > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.