[Rd] Hidden files problem in R CMD check

Ista Zahn
2015-09-27T01:05:42Z

Hi Christian,

This seems like a question about OSX rather than R. You will probably have
more luck asking on an apple forum. Or just google: http://bfy.tw/1zhP

Best,
Ista
On Sep 26, 2015 8:39 PM, "David Winsemius" <dwinsemius at
comcast.net> wrote:

>
> On Sep 26, 2015, at 2:06 PM, cstrato wrote:
>
> > Dear Dirk,
> >
> > Yes, I know, however forget for one moment R.
> >
> > If I use tar independent of R it still should not create these hidden
> files.
> >
> > BTW, do you know where these hidden files are stored on the Mac?
>
> Your first posting showed which of several different directories they were
> in. Do you understand that any file whose name starts with a <period>
is
> called a "hidden file"? It is "hidden", i.e not
displayed in a Finder
> window, from people who are using Finder.app unless you change the default
> settings. It's easy to look up the code that is needed to be pasted
into a
> Terminal session. I never remember it. I just leave Finder set up to
> display these 'dotfiles' as they are also called.
>
> defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
>
> killall Finder
>
> #The second command restarts Finder.app or you could try to restart the
> Finder by option (=alt) + rightclicking the Finder icon in the Dock and
> selecting Relaunch.
>
> --
> David.
>
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Christian
> >
> >
> > On 09/26/15 23:01, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >>
> >> On 26 September 2015 at 22:41, cstrato wrote:
> >> | Dear Simon,
> >> |
> >> | Thank you very much for your help, it did solve my problems!!
Great!
> >> |
> >> | I have googled COPYFILE_DISABLE and found the following site
which
> does
> >> | explain the issue with tar on Mac OS X, see:
> >> |
>
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9665/create-tar-archive-of-a-directory-except-for-hidden-files
> >> |
> >> | Instead of doing:
> >> | $tar czf xps_1.29.2.tar.gz xps
> >> |
> >> | I did now:
> >> | $COPYFILE_DISABLE=1 tar czf xps_1.29.2.tar.gz xps
> >> |
> >> | Running:
> >> | $R CMD check xps_1.29.2.tar.gz
> >> | now leaves only '.BBSoptions' as hidden file.
> >>
> >> No, still wrong. As Simon said, we all are supposed to use 'R
CMD build
> xps'
> >> to create the tarball.  "Back in the day ..." straight
tar cfz ...
> worked, it
> >> more or less stopped _many_ years ago.  Cf
TheOneManualThatMatters:
> >>
> >>    1.3.1 Checking packages
> >>    -----------------------
> >>
> >>    Using 'R CMD check', the R package checker, one can
test whether
> >>    _source_ R packages work correctly.  It can be run on one or
more
> >>    directories, or compressed package 'tar' archives with
extension
> >>    '.tar.gz', '.tgz', '.tar.bz2' or
'.tar.xz'.
> >>
> >>       It is strongly recommended that the final checks are run on
a
> 'tar'
> >>    archive prepared by 'R CMD build'.
> >>
> >> Ie "It is strongly recommended ... 'tar' archive
prepared by 'R CMD
> build'.
> >>
> >> Dirk
> >>
> >
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>
> David Winsemius
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>
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