R help - Oct 2004 - inst directory

R CMD check now balks at my inst directory. It contains a single folder 
"doc," but apparently any folder causes the problem. If inst is empty,
the project checks OK. This was not a problem before 1.9. I've checked 
the documentation, but don't see a change. What am I missing.

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On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Bob Wheeler wrote:
> R CMD check now balks at my inst directory. It contains a single folder 
> "doc," but apparently any folder causes the problem. If inst is
empty,
> the project checks OK. This was not a problem before 1.9. I've checked 
> the documentation, but don't see a change. What am I missing.
Hard to tell.  (What does `balk at' really mean?  What OS?  What is meant
by `now'?: there is no `1.9' and 1.9.0 is six months ago.  And so on.)

There are many packages on CRAN with sub-directories of inst (I presume
that is what you mean by `folder'), for example MASS, sm, spatstat, and
several (e.g. strucchange) have an inst directory just containing a doc 
subdirectory.

As I hope is clear we would need a lot more information.  Also, I think 
R-devel is a more appropriate place to ask such questions.

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