On 12/13/23 15:59, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 13 December 2023 at 15:32, Tomas Kalibera wrote: | Please don't forget about what has been correctly mentioned on this | thread already: there is essentially a 260 character limit on Windows | (see | https://blog.r-project.org/2023/03/07/path-length-limit-on-windows/index.html | for more). Even if the relative path length limit for a CRAN package was | no longer regarded important for tar compatibility, it would still make | sense for compatibility with Windows. It may still be a good service to | your users if you keep renaming the files to fit into that limit. So can lift the limit from 100 char to 260 char ?
The 260 char limit is for the full path. A package would be extracted in some directory, possibly also with a rather long name.
Tomas
Dirk
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