[Rd] --as-cran and need to ignore.svn directories

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Jari Oksanen <jari.oksanen at oulu.fi>
>>>>>     on Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:59:45 +0000 writes:

    > On 12/03/2012, at 18:03 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:

    >> Good morning:
    >> 
    >> I submitted a package update to CRAN and got a bounce because I had
    >> not run R CMD check with "--as-cran".  I'd not heard of that before,
    >> but I'm glad to know about it now.
    >> 
    >> I see it warns when my functions do use partial argument matching, and
    >> I like that advice very much.
    >> 
    >> Also I see this warning
    >> 
    >> * checking package subdirectories ... WARNING Found the following
    >> directory(s) with names of version control directories: ./.svn
    >> ./R/.svn ./data/.svn ./inst/.svn ./inst/doc/.svn ./inst/examples/.svn
    >> ./vignettes/.svn These should not be in a package tarball.
    >> 
    >> Is there a way to cause R to ignore the .svn folders while running R
    >> CMD check --as-cran or R CMD build?
    >> 
    >> It seems a little tedious to have to copy the whole directory tree to
    >> some other place and remove the .svn folders before building. I can do
    >> it, but it just seems, well, tedious. I have the feeling that you
    >> "frequent flyers" would have worked around this already.


    > Paul,

    > I think the best solution is to 'svn export' svn directory to a
    > temporary directory/folder:

No, I don't think that should not be needed.

When building the tarball,  'R CMD build' *does* ignore the .svn
folders, at least for me.

Paul's problem was using  --as-cran on his SVN *directory*
but that's a slight contradiction in itself, as the CRAN maintainers
always run the checks on a tarball...

Martin

    > svn export my-svn-directory tmp-pkg-directory
    > R CMD build tmp-pkg-directory
    > R CMD check --as-cran ...

    > The two advantages of 'svn export' that it (1) strips the .svn specific
    > files, and (2) it really exports only those files that really are under
    > version control. More often than once I have had some non-svn files in
    > my svn directory so that *my* version of the package works, but the one
    > actually in subversion fails.

    > Cheers, Jari Oksanen 

    > -- 
    > Jari Oksanen, Dept Biology, Univ Oulu, 90014 Finland
    > jari.oksanen at oulu.fi, Ph. +358 400 408593, http://cc.oulu.fi/~jarioksa

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