[R] R CMD build wiped my computer

2010-07-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Jarrod Hadfield wrote: My main concern is that this could happen again and that the bug is not limited to R 2.9. I would think that an accidental carriage return at the end of a file name (even a temporary one) would be a reasonably common phenomenon (I'm surprised I

[R] R CMD build wiped my computer

2010-07-27 Thread Jarrod Hadfield
Hi, I ran R (version 2.9.0) CMD build under root in Fedora (9). When it tried to remove junk files it removed EVERYTHING in my local account! (See below). Can anyone tell me what happened, and even more importantly if I can I restore what was lost. Panickingly, Jarrod [jar...@localhost

Re: [R] R CMD build wiped my computer

2010-07-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 27/07/2010 4:39 PM, Jarrod Hadfield wrote: Hi, I ran R (version 2.9.0) CMD build under root in Fedora (9). When it tried to remove junk files it removed EVERYTHING in my local account! (See below). Can anyone tell me what happened, and even more importantly if I can I restore what was lost.

Re: [R] R CMD build wiped my computer

2010-07-27 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 27/07/2010 4:39 PM, Jarrod Hadfield wrote: Hi, I ran R (version 2.9.0) CMD build under root in Fedora (9). When it tried to remove junk files it removed EVERYTHING in my local account! (See below). Can anyone tell me what happened, and

Re: [R] R CMD build wiped my computer

2010-07-27 Thread Jarrod Hadfield
Hi, Thanks for your responses. Although a wrist slapping for not keeping updated with R/Fedora may be warranted, I find it quite terrifying that by simply having a version number in a directory name R went on to try and erase everything on the computer! Thank god I wasn't logged in as