Hello perhaps this is a bit late for R-2.5.0, but does anyone find R CMD Rd2dvi refusing to overwrite an existing dvi file useful? I am forever leaving the .dvi file in my scratch directory and have to remove it manually. I know that one can specify --output=f.dvi, but this just defers the problem because f.dvi won't be overwritten either. Does anyone value this behaviour? If not, could we change it? For me, the typical session goes: octopus:~/scratch% R CMD Rd2dvi ./BACCO Hmm ... looks like a package bundle file 'BACCO.dvi' exists; please remove first octopus:~/scratch% rm BACCO.dvi octopus:~/scratch% R CMD Rd2dvi ./BACCO Hmm ... looks like a package bundle [snip]. -- Robin Hankin Uncertainty Analyst National Oceanography Centre, Southampton European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK tel 023-8059-7743