[Rd] File permissions test during R CMD check

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:05:13AM +0000, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Kurt Hornik wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:
> >
> > > I (still) use RCS, and not CVS, for my own projects. R CMD check does
> > > not like the 0444 file permissions on files check into RCS.
> >
> > > I conjecture that this stems from desire to have the installed files
> > > in a state in which they can be edited, but I might be off base ... In
> > > case my conjecture holds, would it be possible to relax the
> > > restriction during R CMD check, but then install the files as 0644 ?
> >
> > Not as long as R CMD build takes what is in the source dirs.
> >
> > There are some comments about possible improvements to permission tests
> > in the code of check, but in any case all files that are to be installed
> > should be at least 644.  We could relax that for e.g. C source or
> > headers, but not e.g. for DESCRIPTION.

I also checked in the .R and .Rd files.

> First comment: there is a --no-perms option to turn the check off.

Sure, I use that here, but it doesn't buy me lunch as it is (presumably)
not turned on at the archive guard's machine.

> I don't think there is a problem with DESCRIPTION, since we make the
> installed copy with cat and sed.  However, the data file and inst files are
> copied and so might have permissions copied too, but the data files have
> chmod 644 in (Unix) INSTALL.  The files in inst do need to be checked.
> Installing read-only files makes updating packages a lot harder and would
> break the current mechanisms for installing updates over existing copies.

Right -- That is why I suggest to alter file perms/modes on /installation/
not package creation.

Dirk

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