Re: [Rd] Patch idea: an environment variable for setting the user ID

2018-11-11 Thread Kurt Hornik
> Will L writes: > To R-devel, > In `R CMD build`, the ID of the user is automatically inserted into the > DESCRIPTION file, e.g. > Packaged: 2018-11-06 14:01:50 UTC; > This is problematic for those of us who work in corporate settings. We must > not divulge our user IDs in the packages we

[Rd] Patch idea: an environment variable for setting the user ID

2018-11-11 Thread Will L
To R-devel, In `R CMD build`, the ID of the user is automatically inserted into the DESCRIPTION file, e.g. Packaged: 2018-11-06 14:01:50 UTC; This is problematic for those of us who work in corporate settings. We must not divulge our user IDs in the packages we develop and release. Jim Heste