[R] Add compiled code files to .gitignore - #4885
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Adding a default `.gitignore` for new R projects is a nice features. Around 20% of CRAN packages contained compiled code, often C/C++ (and increasingly Rust etc). Those packages will when `git add everything` is used also commit their object code and shared libraries. With this PR they will no longer so it should offer a small quality-of-life improvement to these repositories.
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Pull request overview
Adds default exclusions for compiled artifacts generated by R packages.
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- Ignores object files and shared libraries under src/.
- Covers Unix and Windows outputs.
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Adding a default .gitignore for new R projects is a nice features. Around 20% of CRAN packages contained compiled code, often C/C++ (and increasingly Rust etc). Those packages will when git add everything is used also commit their object code and shared libraries. With this PR they will no longer so it should offer a small quality-of-life improvement to these repositories.
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https://www.r-project.org/
Reasons for making this change
Compilation results such as object files and shared libraries are build-specific temporaries that should not be committed.
Links to documentation supporting these rule changes
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