On 26 September 2015 at 23:06, cstrato wrote: | Dear Dirk, | | Yes, I know, however forget for one moment R.
No we can't. Your question was about to make R CMD check happy and 'quiet'. And one answer is to feed it a properly constructed file. | | If I use tar independent of R it still should not create these hidden | files. Hm, I doubt that. We have to tell R explicitly to exclude dotfiles, directories from version control etc pp. Recall the discussion years when .git was added to the already existing .svn? In any event, R is open source so you can check what 'build' does and follow its code into the tools package. | BTW, do you know where these hidden files are stored on the Mac? Pass -- I am too pedestrian for owing one of those machines ;-) Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel