Re: [Rd] file.copy(from=Directory, to=File) oddity

2017-09-11 Thread William Dunlap via R-devel
Bug 17337. Note that I get R making the zero-length file on both Windows and Linux, but the return values are different. Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: > > William Dunlap via R-devel > > on Fri, 8 Sep 2017 09:54

Re: [Rd] Bug: dput/deparse with named character vector inside list

2017-09-11 Thread Martin Maechler
> Neal Richardson > on Fri, 8 Sep 2017 10:52:32 -0700 writes: > Hi, > I noticed some R-devel failures on CRAN on a package I maintain: > https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_httptest.html > It appears that 'dput'/'deparse' is returning an invalid objec

Re: [Rd] file.copy(from=Directory, to=File) oddity

2017-09-11 Thread Martin Maechler
> William Dunlap via R-devel > on Fri, 8 Sep 2017 09:54:58 -0700 writes: > When I mistakenly use file.copy() with a directory for the 'from' argument > and a non-directory for the 'to' and overwrite=TRUE, file.copy returns > FALSE, meaning it could not do the copying. How