... or simply read the help for ?tar for a short discussion about
standards and note R is still used on commercial Unixes that ship with
very old versions of tar.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
On 18.04.2019 20:30, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
You could go down this rabbit hole if you like, but I suspect it ha
You could go down this rabbit hole if you like, but I suspect it has something
to do with maintaining compatibility with multiple operating systems and I
doubt R Core will explore the consequences of this change for you. Windows, for
example, allows long file names but has some nasty corners tha
Thanks Dirk,
Yes, I've done the same, and I agree the rules are the rules. Rules should
be updated when they're no longer helpful, or when their cost outweighs
their benefit. I'm curious whether that might be the case here.
Cheers,
Steve
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:54 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote
On 18 April 2019 at 10:37, Steven Scott wrote:
| My Boom package makes a C++ library available to package authors (mainly
| me). The wrapped library is used outside of R and must comply with
| external style rules such as UseLongDescriptiveNames, and files must be
| named for the class they cont
