[R-pkg-devel] Tool for advanced man/doc page check?

[Etienne Bacher]

Hi Ghislain,

You may be interested in checkhelper::find_missing_tags().
More generally, there's a nice list of tools to prepare for CRAN submission here: https://github.com/ThinkR-open/prepare-for-cran

Best,
Etienne




Le jeudi 10 juillet 2025 à 12:14 PM, Ghislain Durif <ghislain.durif using ens-lyon.fr> a écrit :

> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am the maintainer of a package for which we have done a major
> refactoring (work in progress, can be found here
> https://github.com/getkeops/keops/tree/fix_rkeops_v2_keops_v2.3/rkeops).
> 
> 
> Upon my last resubmission to CRAN, some issues regarding some man pages
> (that I obviously missed) were found, e.g. function doc without a
> \value{} tag, or examples for (purposely) unexported functions.
> 
> These issues were not raised during package check (with or without
> `--as-cran` flag).
> 
> The code base is quite large, and I would be very interested in any tool
> that could help me check the man pages more thoroughly than a package
> check ?
> 
> I know about `devtools::check_man()` but it does not find the issues
> that I am mentioning.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Best regards,
> 
> --
> Ghislain Durif
> -------------------------------------------
> Research engineer -- CNRS
> BioComputing Hub, LBMC, ENS Lyon (France)
> Webpage: https://gdurif.perso.math.cnrs.fr
> 
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