I just found this other discussion, with some more snark (who would have
thought this subject would be so slippery!) :
https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17258
Duncan makes the argument that R's history shows the feature is not
absolutely necessary, but that's what make it a feature reques
Dear R-devel,
Packages don't allow for subfolders in R with a couple exceptions. We find
in "Writing R extensions" :
> The R and man subdirectories may contain OS-specific subdirectories named
unix or windows.
This is something I've seen discussed outside of the mailing list numerous
times, and
