[R] howto test a package without installation

[R. Michael Weylandt]

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/devtools/index.html

Michael

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Jonas Stein <news at jonasstein.de> wrote:
>> Look at Hadley Wickham's devtools package.  It is designed with this
>> sort of thing.  That said, it really is not too difficult to install
>> as long as you have a working tool chain (which you will need to test
>> it anyway).
>
> I cound not find it with google and found no "devtools" on this page
> http://had.co.nz/
> can you give more details please.
>
>
>> R CMD INSTALL /tmp/sitools
>> R
>> require(sitools)
>
> This seems not to be what i want:
>
> $ R CMD INSTALL sitools
> * installing to library ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
> Error: ERROR: no permission to install to directory ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
>
> R tries to install something in my system. That may confuse my
> debian packagemanagement.
>
> kind regards,
>
> --
> Jonas Stein <news at jonasstein.de>
>
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