[R-pkg-devel] R CMD check for a package which depends on not installed other package

[Rainer M Krug]

Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> writes:

> On 26.08.2015 12:23, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am working on two packages, where one (EnergyBalance) contains
>> general functions and the second package (EnergyBalancePaper) contains
>> the data and the analysis of this specific day=ta using the general
>> functions ion the package EnergyBalance.
>>
>> Now I am trying to clean the packages and I am running
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> R CMD build ./PACKAGE && R CMD check PACKAGE_0.0.1.tar.gz
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> where everything works fine for EnergyBalance, but EnergyBalancePaper
>> depends on EnergyBalance, and I get obviously the following error:
>>
>> ,----
>> | Package required but not available: ‘EnergyBalance’
>> `----
>>
>> As they are both still under heavy development, I do not want to install
>> them in my main library of R.
>>
>> Is there a way of telling R to use ./../library as a library as well in
>> the command, or should I define a .Rprofile in the current diractory?
>>
>> What is the best approach in such a situation?
>
> Install into that other library and temporarily set R_LIBS_USER that
> points to that additional library.

Nice - that even works with --vanilla

Thanks,
Rainer

>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>>
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