[R] Validating R after it has been installed!

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On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 08:51:11PM +0100, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> Leslie_Branch at hgsi.com writes:
> 
> > While compiling R (Any version) you run configure, make test, and then make
> > install.  After which you are done.  I am wondering if there is a way we
> > can run the "make test" part again on what was just installed.  If I
> > understand the process correctly when you initially run "make test" you are
> > testing R in the test area and not the install directory.  Is it something
> > as simple as changing the BASEDIR in the makefile or is it a bit more
> > complicated.
> 
> Installation is almost exclusively a copying operation, so
> it is unlikely that installation would break the kind of thing
> that "make test" checks for, but you could change the definition of $R
> in the makefiles inside tests/ and tests/Examples. 
>
Hello-
	A bit off-topic, but shouldn't CRAN publish the MD5 checksums for R?
	I am saying this because of the recent crack episode, although as I understand CRAN has a fresh Debian GNU/Linux install.
	TIA
	Regs,
	HL
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