Is there some way to avoid the automatic generation of hello* files in package.skeleton? I found that the following does it on Windows but then it does not create an R directory which I still want and also it gives warnings which I don't want. package.skeleton(code_files = "NUL") -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com