Re: [Rd] R CMD build wiped my computer (from R-help)

2010-08-01 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 28/07/2010 8:10 PM, Ray Brownrigg wrote: >> NOTE: Now submitted to R-devel, as this seems more appropriate. >> >> I may have spoken too soon about this having been fixed. (see below). >> >> If I create another "unusual but not 'invalid'" filename in the R >> subdirectory

Re: [Rd] R CMD build wiped my computer (from R-help)

2010-07-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 28/07/2010 8:10 PM, Ray Brownrigg wrote: NOTE: Now submitted to R-devel, as this seems more appropriate. I may have spoken too soon about this having been fixed. (see below). If I create another "unusual but not 'invalid'" filename in the R subdirectory, the behaviour is different from that

Re: [Rd] R CMD build wiped my computer (from R-help)

2010-07-29 Thread Ray Brownrigg
NOTE: Now submitted to R-devel, as this seems more appropriate. I may have spoken too soon about this having been fixed. (see below). If I create another "unusual but not 'invalid'" filename in the R subdirectory, the behaviour is different from that reported below, and is similar to the origin

Re: [Rd] R CMD build wiped my computer

2010-07-28 Thread Jarrod Hadfield
Hi Martin, I think this is the most likely reason given that the name in the DESCRIPTION file does NOT have a version number. Even so, it is very easy to misname a file and then delete it/change its name (as I've done here) and I hope current versions of R would not cause this problem. Pe

Re: [Rd] R CMD build wiped my computer

2010-07-28 Thread Martin Maechler
> Jarrod Hadfield > on Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:37:09 +0100 writes: > Hi, I ran R (version 2.9.0) CMD build under root in > Fedora (9). When it tried to remove "junk files" it > removed EVERYTHING in my local account! (See below). > Can anyone tell me what happened, the

[Rd] R CMD build wiped my computer

2010-07-28 Thread Jarrod Hadfield
Hi, I ran R (version 2.9.0) CMD build under root in Fedora (9). When it tried to remove "junk files" it removed EVERYTHING in my local account! (See below). Can anyone tell me what happened, and even more importantly if I can I restore what was lost. Panickingly, Jarrod [jar...@localh