[R-SIG-Mac] R 3.0, lme4, and the oft unloved Mac OS

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 10 16:07:22 CEST 2013


On 10/04/2013 10:02 AM, flip wrote:
> Ah hah!
> OK- that's good to know (sorry for naïveté, just learning how to build things in the R-ecosphere).
>
> Realize this isn't r-mac specific, but, is there a way to run package tests post
>
> install.packages("lme4", type = 'source')
>
> sorts of procedures? I tried things like lme4.test() et alia...

See ?tools::testInstalledPackage.  You can do better tests on a tarball 
because some test material is not installed by default.

And you can find things like this from the R command prompt by ??tests, 
or using the sos package and ???tests.

Duncan Murdoch



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