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# Author: Boris Steipe (ORCID: 0000-0002-1134-6758)
# License: (c) Author (2019) + MIT
# Date: 2019-04-03

Grep in source files

In a current project, we recently merged in a number of pull requests and I thought they had passed all checks ... but after everything was done, Check produced a warning:

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# Author: Boris Steipe (ORCID: 0000-0002-1134-6758)
# License: (c) Author (2019) + MIT
# Date: 2019-01-17

What are MD5 files good for anyway?

I recently contributed to Siegfried Köstlmeier's qrandom package and overlooked to update the package MD5 file. That got me thinking - these files are actually not mentioned in Writing R Extensions, and they are not mentioned in Hadley Wickham's R Packages either. We find them in the wild - but I did not find an explicit source regarding their format. In fact, there is a puzzled post from 2016 by Matthew Lueder on Stack Overflow "What is the MD5 file in R packages used for? How is it generated?" ... and the sole answer on the page misunderstood the question.

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# qUUID.R
#
# Author: Boris Steipe (ORCID: 0000-0002-1134-6758)
# License: (c) Author (2018) + MIT
# Date: 2019-01-14
#
# A utility to generate UUIDS from qrandom::qrandom() quantum random bits.


# ==== intro ===================================================================

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# x2int.R
#
# Author: Boris Steipe (ORCID: 0000-0002-1134-6758)
# License: (c) Author (2018) + MIT
# Date: 2019-01-14
#
# A utility to use qrandom::qrandom() to get integers from the full range
# of machine representable integers

# ==== intro ===================================================================

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# grepPackage.R
# Author: Boris Steipe (ORCID: 0000-0002-1134-6758)
# License: (c) Author (2018) + MIT
# Date: 2018-12-31
#
# This R-script grep()s a pattern in all relevant files of an RStudio
# project/package. For expected directories and files, see:
# https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html
#
# Issues:

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# checkLinks.R
# Author: Boris Steipe (ORCID: 0000-0002-1134-6758)
# License: (c) Author (2018) + MIT
# Date: 2018-12-29
#
# This R-script installs packages (if needed) and defines a function to access
# all http:// and https:// links referenced in an HTML document and check their
# status code.
#
# Issues: