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, and the path separator in Windows is \ in most places, but / is > accepted in R. There are a large number of inconsistencies between > Windows and other systems, and R mostly follows the GNU conventions; > it's a GNU project, after all.
That's not a bad point but is there really any reason to make it even less windows-like? After all, it did work in either case before and windows filenames are case insensitive so its not like there is a valid distinction between install and INSTALL if the word refers to a filename. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > 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 > >>> 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 does work; however, this was not necessary previously. > >>> > >>> Note that > >>> > >>> C:\Rpkgs>Rcmd check mypkg > >>> > >>> unlike install, still works in either lower or upper case in 2.4.0 alpha. > >> This is a documented change--see the CHANGES file. > >> > >> Duncan Murdoch > >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel