[Rd] docs about _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ ?

[Toby Hocking]

I agree with the doc updates Gabe proposes, they would be helpful.

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 12:56 PM Gabriel Becker <gabembecker using gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Toby,
>
> As Gabor pointed out the place where the various levers R CMD check
> supports is in the R-internals manual, but there is a link directly to that
> section in
> https://cloud.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Checking-packages
>
> It could perhaps be more prominent, perhaps by moving the paragraph that
> appears in to before the detailed list of  exact tests that are performed?
> I'm happy to put a patch for that together if there is a) interest, and b)
> a patch is preferable to someone on R-core simply doing that migration
> themselves.
>
> I do also agree that given that _R_CHECK_DEPENDS_ONLY_ and _R_CHECK_SUGGESTS_ONLY_
> are mentioned in the section you link, it would perhaps make sense to
> mention _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ as well. I can put that in the patch as
> well, if there is agreement from R-core that one or both of these changes
> make sense.
>
> Best,
> ~G
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 11:07 AM Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor using gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> See at https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-ints.html#Tools
>>
>> Gabor
>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 7:05 PM Toby Hocking <tdhock5 using gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Can someone please add documentation for that environment variable to
>> > Writing R Extensions? An appropriate place would be section
>> >
>> https://cloud.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Suggested-packages
>> > which already discusses _R_CHECK_DEPENDS_ONLY_=true
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