> -------Original Message------- > From: Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Rd] dos-style line endings in .Rbuildignore result in files > not being excluded > Sent: 2008-10-14 12:59 > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Nathan Coulter wrote: > > > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > > >> But to the point: how often do people get DOS-style files on a > >> Unix-alike? You have to work pretty hard to do this, and there comes a > >> point at which complicating R to workaround wrongly encoded files is not > >> worth the trouble. Let's see if anyone else reports having done this. > >> > > > > In my experience, this is a common occurrence. Granted, foreign line > > delimiters are less common in a configuration file like .Rbuildignore, but > > they > > have been the culprit more than once in package problems I have > encountered. > > think functionality like Python's universal newlines would be a big win for > > R. > > But R *does* have 'universal newlines' on its connections, and has for > many years. >
I'm suggesting that Python might be a better choice than perl for auxiliary scripts because these details are handled under the hood. -- Nathan Coulter > -------Original Message------- > From: Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Rd] dos-style line endings in .Rbuildignore result in files > not being excluded > Sent: 2008-10-14 12:59 > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Nathan Coulter wrote: > > > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > > >> But to the point: how often do people get DOS-style files on a > >> Unix-alike? You have to work pretty hard to do this, and there comes a > >> point at which complicating R to workaround wrongly encoded files is not > >> worth the trouble. Let's see if anyone else reports having done this. > >> > > > > In my experience, this is a common occurrence. Granted, foreign line > > delimiters are less common in a configuration file like .Rbuildignore, but > > they > > have been the culprit more than once in package problems I have > encountered. > > think functionality like Python's universal newlines would be a big win for > > R. > > But R *does* have 'universal newlines' on its connections, and has for > many years. > > We are talking about a Perl script here, not R. > > > One of the big draws in a programming language like Python is its claim to > > being portable, and universal newlines are a critical part of that > > functionality. Mac-style newline delimiters are surfacing more often these > > days as well, and the best place to sort this all out would be in the > > built-in > > file manipulation functions. > > -- > > Nathan Coulter > > Computer Programmer > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
