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...d "R CMD check" checks for just these filenames. Consequently, "R CMD check" can let through filenames that are disallowed under Windows. For references, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename and http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/naming_a_file.asp (FWIW, note however that Wikipedia *may* be mistaken in claiming that "com0" and "lpt0" are special file names -- these are not listed on the Microsoft page, and I verified that they can be used as normal file names on my Windows XP machine at least.) Accordingly, the fo...