PkgUtils {utils} | R Documentation |
Utilities for checking whether the sources of an R add-on package work correctly, and for building a source package from them.
R CMD check [options] pkgdirs R CMD build [options] pkgdirs
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. |
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.
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).