Re: [ESS] R 4.0

2020-04-18 Thread Lionel Henry via ESS-help
macOS filesystems are indeed case insensitive by default (you can format with sensitivity enabled if you like), but this is not necessarily a concern here. On macOS, R is typically installed as a "framework". In that case we use RSwitch.app to change the version that the `R` symlink points to.

Re: [ESS] R 4.0

2020-04-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help
On 18 April 2020 at 13:57, Martin Maechler via ESS-help wrote: | But on that most-used (non-)operating system, lowercase and | uppercase are mostly equivalent in file names *and* executables | are file names, no? No: edd@rob:~$ r --version | head -1 r ('littler') version 0.3.9

Re: [ESS] R 4.0

2020-04-18 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Vitalie Spinu via ESS-help > on Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:32:50 +0200 writes: > I think we could stick to capital `R-`. A few false positives, if any, > are probably harmless. > Vitalie But on that most-used (non-)operating system, lowercase and uppercase are mostly