Hi Christian, This seems like a question about OSX rather than R. You will probably have more luck asking on an apple forum. Or just google: http://bfy.tw/1zhP
Best, Ista On Sep 26, 2015 8:39 PM, "David Winsemius" <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Sep 26, 2015, at 2:06 PM, cstrato wrote: > > > Dear Dirk, > > > > Yes, I know, however forget for one moment R. > > > > If I use tar independent of R it still should not create these hidden > files. > > > > BTW, do you know where these hidden files are stored on the Mac? > > Your first posting showed which of several different directories they were > in. Do you understand that any file whose name starts with a <period> is > called a "hidden file"? It is "hidden", i.e not displayed in a Finder > window, from people who are using Finder.app unless you change the default > settings. It's easy to look up the code that is needed to be pasted into a > Terminal session. I never remember it. I just leave Finder set up to > display these 'dotfiles' as they are also called. > > defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES > > killall Finder > > #The second command restarts Finder.app or you could try to restart the > Finder by option (=alt) + rightclicking the Finder icon in the Dock and > selecting Relaunch. > > -- > David. > > > > > Best regards, > > Christian > > > > > > On 09/26/15 23:01, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > >> > >> On 26 September 2015 at 22:41, cstrato wrote: > >> | Dear Simon, > >> | > >> | Thank you very much for your help, it did solve my problems!! Great! > >> | > >> | I have googled COPYFILE_DISABLE and found the following site which > does > >> | explain the issue with tar on Mac OS X, see: > >> | > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9665/create-tar-archive-of-a-directory-except-for-hidden-files > >> | > >> | Instead of doing: > >> | $tar czf xps_1.29.2.tar.gz xps > >> | > >> | I did now: > >> | $COPYFILE_DISABLE=1 tar czf xps_1.29.2.tar.gz xps > >> | > >> | Running: > >> | $R CMD check xps_1.29.2.tar.gz > >> | now leaves only '.BBSoptions' as hidden file. > >> > >> No, still wrong. As Simon said, we all are supposed to use 'R CMD build > xps' > >> to create the tarball. "Back in the day ..." straight tar cfz ... > worked, it > >> more or less stopped _many_ years ago. Cf TheOneManualThatMatters: > >> > >> 1.3.1 Checking packages > >> ----------------------- > >> > >> Using 'R CMD check', the R package checker, one can test whether > >> _source_ R packages work correctly. It can be run on one or more > >> directories, or compressed package 'tar' archives with extension > >> '.tar.gz', '.tgz', '.tar.bz2' or '.tar.xz'. > >> > >> It is strongly recommended that the final checks are run on a > 'tar' > >> archive prepared by 'R CMD build'. > >> > >> Ie "It is strongly recommended ... 'tar' archive prepared by 'R CMD > build'. > >> > >> Dirk > >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel