Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that command lines are case insensitive on Windows. 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

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Uwe Ligges
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that command lines are case insensitive on Windows. This is an improvement. R tries to be as unique as possible on all platforms. Uwe Ligges On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 10/1/06, Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gabor Grothendieck wrote: This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that command lines are case insensitive on Windows. This is an improvement. R tries to be as unique as possible on all platforms. Not sure what the above

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 1 October 2006 at 08:53, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | On 10/1/06, Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that | command lines are case insensitive on Windows. | | This is an improvement. R tries to be as

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 10/1/06, Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 October 2006 at 08:53, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | On 10/1/06, Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that | command lines are case insensitive

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
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

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
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

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what I'd suggest you do if you find typing INSTALL to be painful is to install an alias or command script that wraps it up in a way that feels more comfortable to you. It would be possible to do some processing in Rcmd.bat in batchfiles

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/1/2006 4:30 PM, hadley wickham wrote: Requiring Perl script names to be specified in a case-sensitive way doesn't affect the R build process, but it does mean that a script written on Windows is slightly more likely to work when someone runs it on another platform. There's an install

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I think the really annoying thing is that it was changed for the worse. Why not just keep it how it was before? On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/1/2006 4:30 PM, hadley wickham wrote: Requiring Perl script names to be specified in a case-sensitive way doesn't affect

[Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-09-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I noticed that in R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-16 r39365) on Windows XP that I get this error: C:\RpkgsRcmd 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