[Rd] proposal for new flag to R CMD INSTALL

[Kjetil Halvorsen]

For the purpose of helping in installing only parts of a package
(in my case, the help system), R CMD INSTALL
should accept a flag   --no-check-deps

Below is a diff for R-devel, svn revision    53672



kjetil at kjetil:~/R/R-devel/src/library/tools/R$ diff install.R.old install.R
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>             "      --no-check-deps      skip test if installed depends/imports",
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<             if (length(miss) > 1)
---
>             if ((length(miss) > 1) && check_deps)
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<             else if (length(miss))
---
>             else if (length(miss) && check_deps)
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>     check_deps <- TRUE
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>         } else if (a == "--no-check-deps") {
>             check_deps <- FALSE



kjetil