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Posted to github@arrow.apache.org by "amoeba (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org> on 2025/06/30 18:44:58 UTC

Re: [I] [R][Packaging] Address CRAN check NOTE about portable file names [arrow]

amoeba commented on issue #46947:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/46947#issuecomment-3020329572

   Quote from the relevant section in WRE ([link](https://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-exts.html#:~:text=In%20addition%2C%20some,portability%2C%20100%20bytes.)):
   
   >  In addition, some applications on Windows can only work with path names of certain length, following an earlier limit in the Windows operating system. Packages are normally distributed as tarballs, and these have a limit on path lengths. So, to be friendly to users who themselves may want to use a relatively long path where they extract the package, and for maximal portability, 100 bytes.


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