Re: [Rd] suggestion/request: install.packages and unnecessary file modifications

2009-03-19 Thread Martin Maechler
Thank you, Mark, I've now committed (a version of) your suggestion to R-devel (destined to become R 2.9.0 on April 17). Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich mark.braving...@csiro.au on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:52:30 +1100 writes: Dear R-devel When 'install.packages' runs, it updates all

[Rd] suggestion/request: install.packages and unnecessary file modifications

2009-03-10 Thread Mark.Bravington
Dear R-devel When 'install.packages' runs, it updates all html files in all packages. Mostly, there seems to be no actual change to the html file contents, but the date/time does change. This has causing been me a bit of trouble, because I keep synchronized versions of R on several different