| PkgUtils {utils} | R Documentation |
Utilities for checking whether the sources of an R add-on package work correctly, and for building a source or binary package from them.
R CMD build [options] pkgdirs R CMD check [options] pkgdirs
pkgdirs |
a list of names of directories with sources of R add-on packages. |
options |
further options to control the processing, or for obtaining information about usage and version of the utility. |
R CMD check
checks R add-on packages from their sources, performing a wide
variety of diagnostic checks.
R CMD build
builds R source or binary packages from their sources. It will
create index files in the sources if necessary, so it is often helpful
to run build before check.
Use
R CMD foo --help
to obtain usage information on utility foo.
Several of the options to build --binary are passed to
INSTALL so consult its help for the details.
These may not work correctly under Windows 95/98/ME because of problems Perl has launching programs on those limited OSes.
They make use of a temporary directory specified by the enironment
variable TMPDIR and defaulting to c:/TEMP. Do ensure
that if set forward slashes are used.
The sections on “Checking and building packages” and “Processing Rd format” in “Writing R Extensions” (see the Manuals sub-menu of the Help menu on the console).
INSTALL is called by build --binary.