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.
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
> 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