[R] Re: packaging a package addon

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Ross Boylan wrote:

> 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.

NO, do R CMD INSTALL on the sources, and the R  run some tests.

> 
> > 
> > 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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