[R] Re: packaging a package addon

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I would do 1 3 2  as R CMD check works on a source dir, not a .tar.gz.

Your mileage may vary and all that.

I'd say R CMD check was a final check before distribution via R CMD build.

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Ross Boylan wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 03:14, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> > But I would not be doing R CMD check until I had both installed and 
> > loaded the package and run a few examples.
> 
> That's interesting; I thought R CMD check was supposed to be done before
> hand.  So are you saying the proper development sequence is
> 1.
> Do as much as you can with the basic R and C (Fortran, whatever) code to
> check it's OK.
> 
> 2.
> R CMD build
> test, revise
> R CMD build
> etc
> 
> 3. then, when everything looks OK
> R CMD check
> ?
> 
> 

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