On 13 January 2020 at 14:51, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote: | 3. Dirk gave good input about the flags in R CMD check and how to find them. One more | line in the "Writing R Extensions" manual would have been helpful, namely that many of the | options are NOT available in the options() command nor as arguments to R. As near as I | can tell, there is no way to turn on these logic checks within a standard R session. A
Section 8 of R Internals: 8 Tools ******* The behavior of 'R CMD check' can be controlled through a variety of command line arguments and environment variables. [...] or online at https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-ints.html#Tools Also, if I may, and as I may not have been clear enough earlier (as it confused at least Martin): these "rolling" tightenings of "standards" and tests are IMHO one the many rather clever "devices" R Core and CRAN use to keep improving the quality of the code we all produce. It's a good thing. That said, and just like Terry, I have also searched many times for these variables, and part of me thinks that it a crime that the material is spread over (at least) three different manuals but _c'est la vie_. Until we get a dedicated volunteer editor, or, deity forbid we decide to spend some (collective) money on professional documentation. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
