Re: [R-pkg-devel] creating indelible file during unit test

2017-12-12 Thread Tom Wainwright
In *nix systems, permission to delete is at the directory level, not the file level, so you might try changing the mode of the parent directory, rather than the file itself, as in: > dir.create('test') > > file.create(file.path("test",'file1')) > [1] TRUE > > Sys.chmod("test", mode="") > > fil

Re: [R-pkg-devel] creating indelible file during unit test

2017-12-12 Thread Iñaki Úcar
2017-12-12 15:47 GMT+01:00 Barry Rowlingson : > I think unix makes it impossible for you to create something that even you > can't delete. You may need higher powers ("root") to change the ownership > of the thing you've created. In a Unix system with administrator rights, you can set the immutabl

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Rcpp Copyright Query

2017-12-12 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 12 December 2017 at 13:40, Meabh McCurdy wrote: | I am currently in the process of submitting a new R package to CRAN. This package uses the Rcpp package, as stated in the 'LinkingTo' section of the Description file. So far no problem. | I am currently missing two copyright holders relating

Re: [R-pkg-devel] creating indelible file during unit test

2017-12-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Thierry Onkelinx wrote: > Dear all, > > Some function I wrote deletes a bunch of files. It is crucial that all > files get deleted. Hence it should return an error when one or more > files couldn't be deleted. > > I'm writing a unit test for this function. I fail

[R-pkg-devel] Rcpp Copyright Query

2017-12-12 Thread Meabh McCurdy
Dear All, I am currently in the process of submitting a new R package to CRAN. This package uses the Rcpp package, as stated in the 'LinkingTo' section of the Description file. I am currently missing two copyright holders relating to the Rcpp package: - Copyright (C) 2010 - 2012 Dirk Eddelbuette

Re: [R-pkg-devel] creating indelible file during unit test

2017-12-12 Thread Iñaki Úcar
2017-12-12 13:24 GMT+01:00 Thierry Onkelinx : > Dear all, > > Some function I wrote deletes a bunch of files. It is crucial that all > files get deleted. Hence it should return an error when one or more > files couldn't be deleted. > > I'm writing a unit test for this function. I fail to create a f

[R-pkg-devel] creating indelible file during unit test

2017-12-12 Thread Thierry Onkelinx
Dear all, Some function I wrote deletes a bunch of files. It is crucial that all files get deleted. Hence it should return an error when one or more files couldn't be deleted. I'm writing a unit test for this function. I fail to create a file that can't be deleted by the function. I've tried Sys.