R devel - Nov 2010 - inst/ and hidden files/directories, especially inst/.svn/?

In Section 'Package subdirectories' of 'Writing R Extensions', 
it
says about the inst/ directory that:

"The contents of the inst subdirectory will be copied recursively to
the installation directory (except perhaps hidden files with names
starting with ?.?)."

Indeed, on Windows with R v2.12.0 patched (2010-11-01 r53513) and R
v2.13.0 devel (2010-11-01 r53513), if you have:

foo/inst/bar/.bar/foo.txt

that subdirectory .bar/ will be included in the *.tar.gz and *.zip
builds.  However, .svn/ is as in:

foo/inst/bar/.svn/foo.txt

is only included in the *.zip file, not the *.tar.gz file.

Is this expected?  The "perhaps" in the documentation indicates that.

/Henrik

Yes, ".svn" is special cased.

Uwe Ligges


On 02.11.2010 23:53, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> In Section 'Package subdirectories' of 'Writing R
Extensions',  it
> says about the inst/ directory that:
>
> "The contents of the inst subdirectory will be copied recursively to
> the installation directory (except perhaps hidden files with names
> starting with ?.?)."
>
> Indeed, on Windows with R v2.12.0 patched (2010-11-01 r53513) and R
> v2.13.0 devel (2010-11-01 r53513), if you have:
>
> foo/inst/bar/.bar/foo.txt
>
> that subdirectory .bar/ will be included in the *.tar.gz and *.zip
> builds.  However, .svn/ is as in:
>
> foo/inst/bar/.svn/foo.txt
>
> is only included in the *.zip file, not the *.tar.gz file.
>
> Is this expected?  The "perhaps" in the documentation indicates
that.
>
> /Henrik
>
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