[R] disabling vignette creation in R CMD build

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Mon Jul 8 21:39:56 CEST 2013


On 08/07/2013 20:20, Witold E Wolski wrote:
> While developing a package I would like to disable vignette creation
> when executing R CMD build. The vignette creation is costly so I would
> prefer not to have to regenerate it every time.

Why not read the documentation?

As the exact answer depends on the version of R, we will not write the 
manuals out here.  But

R CMD build --help

should give you enough of a clue ....  Otherwise read 'Writing R 
Extensions' §1.4, for your version of R.


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