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checkMD5sums {tools}R Documentation

Check and Create MD5 Checksum Files

Description

checkMD5sums checks the files against a file MD5; .installMD5sums creates such a file.

Usage

checkMD5sums(pkg, dir)
.installMD5sums(pkgDir, outDir = pkgDir)

Arguments

pkg

the name of an installed package

dir, pkgDir

the path to the top-level directory of an installed package.

outDir

the directory within which to create the MD5 file.

Details

The file ‘MD5’ which is created is in a format which can be checked by md5sum -c MD5 if a suitable command-line version of md5sum is available.

Value

checkMD5sums returns a logical, NA if there is no MD5 file to be checked.

See Also

md5sum


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