[Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Sun Oct 1 14:36:27 CEST 2006



Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that
> command lines are case insensitive on Windows.

This is an improvement. R tries to be as unique as possible on all 
platforms.

Uwe Ligges


> On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
>> On 9/30/2006 10:54 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>> I noticed that in "R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-16 r39365)" on Windows XP
>>> that I get this error:
>>>
>>> C:\Rpkgs>Rcmd install mypkg
>>> no Perl script 'install'
>>>
>>> The same command worked with no error in 2.3.1pat.  If I capitalize
>>> INSTALL it does work; however, this was not necessary previously.
>>>
>>> Note that
>>>
>>> C:\Rpkgs>Rcmd check mypkg
>>>
>>> unlike install, still works in either lower or upper case in 2.4.0 alpha.
>> This is a documented change--see the CHANGES file.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
> 
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