PkgUtils {utils}R Documentation

Utilities for Building and Checking Add-on Packages

Description

Utilities for checking whether the sources of an R add-on package work correctly, and for building a source package from them.

Usage

R CMD check [options] pkgdirs
R CMD build [options] pkgdirs

Arguments

pkgdirs a list of names of directories with sources of R add-on packages. For check these can also be the filenames of compressed tar archives with extension ‘.tar.gz’, ‘.tgz’, ‘.tar.bz2’ or ‘.tar.xz’ (where supported by tar).
options further options to control the processing, or for obtaining information about usage and version of the utility.

Details

R CMD check checks R add-on packages from their sources, performing a wide variety of diagnostic checks.

R CMD build builds R source tarballs. The name(s) of the packages are taken from the ‘DESCRIPTION’ files and not from the directory names. As from R 2.13.0 this works entirely on a copy of the supplied source directories.

Use R CMD foo --help to obtain usage information on utility foo.

The defaults for some of the options to R CMD build can be set by environment variables _R_BUILD_RESAVE_DATA_ and _R_BUILD_COMPACT_VIGNETTES_: see ‘Writing R Extensions’. Many of the checks in R CMD check can be turned off or on by environment variables: see Chapter 6 of the ‘R Internals’ manual.

See Also

The sections on “Checking and building packages” and “Processing Rd format” in “Writing R Extensions” (see the ‘doc/manual’ subdirectory of the R source tree).


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