PkgUtils {base}

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 or binary package from them.

Usage

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

Arguments

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.

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 or binary packages from their sources.

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

See Also

The chapter “Processing Rd format” in “Writing R Extensions” (see the ‘doc/manual’ subdirectory of the R source tree).

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