Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I think the really annoying thing is that it was changed for the worse. Why not just keep it how it was before? On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/1/2006 4:30 PM, hadley wickham wrote: > >> Requiring Perl script names to be specified in a case-sensitive way > >> doesn't

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/1/2006 4:30 PM, hadley wickham wrote: >> Requiring Perl script names to be specified in a case-sensitive way >> doesn't affect the R build process, but it does mean that a script >> written on Windows is slightly more likely to work when someone runs it >> on another platform. There's an "in

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread hadley wickham
> Requiring Perl script names to be specified in a case-sensitive way > doesn't affect the R build process, but it does mean that a script > written on Windows is slightly more likely to work when someone runs it > on another platform. There's an "install" command in at least some > flavours of Un

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So what I'd suggest you do if you find typing INSTALL to be painful is > to install an alias or command script that wraps it up in a way that > feels more comfortable to you. It would be possible to do some processing in Rcmd.bat in batchfi

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/1/2006 1:10 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On 10/1/06, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 1 October 2006 at 08:53, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> | On 10/1/06, Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> | > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> | > > This would seem to violate the user in

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/1/2006 7:20 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that > > command lines are case insensitive on Windows. > > And command options use a / prefix in Windows, but a - or -- prefix in > R

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/1/2006 7:20 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that > command lines are case insensitive on Windows. And command options use a / prefix in Windows, but a - or -- prefix in R, and the path separator in Windows is \ in most places, but / i

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 10/1/06, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1 October 2006 at 08:53, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > | On 10/1/06, Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > | > > This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that > | > > command lines are ca

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 1 October 2006 at 08:53, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | On 10/1/06, Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | > > This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that | > > command lines are case insensitive on Windows. | > | > This is an improvement. R tries t

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 10/1/06, Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that > > command lines are case insensitive on Windows. > > This is an improvement. R tries to be as unique as possible on all > platforms. Not sure what t

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Uwe Ligges
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that > command lines are case insensitive on Windows. This is an improvement. R tries to be as unique as possible on all platforms. Uwe Ligges > On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 9/

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 9/30/2006 10:54 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > I noticed that in "R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-16 r39365)" on Windows XP > that I get this error: > > C:\Rpkgs>Rcmd install mypkg > no Perl script 'install' > > The same command worked with no error in 2.3.1pat. If I capitalize > INSTALL it d

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that command lines are case insensitive on Windows. On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/30/2006 10:54 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > I noticed that in "R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-16 r39365)" on Windows XP > >