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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