[R] Re: packaging a package addon

[Ross Boylan]

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 13:29, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 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'm not following something.  1 3 2 was what I was doing.  I thought you
said (below on Fri) that you'd do 2, then 3.  I may be misunderstanding
what the phrase "installed and loaded the package" means.  I thought
installing and loading it referred to doing an R CMD build to make the
package, and then R CMD INSTALL on the result.

> 
> 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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