>>>>> Ben Bolker writes:

>   For what it's worth, I suspect this level of checking is only done
> for *new* (or returned-from-archiving) packages. I agree that having
> an option to have it checked by R CMD check would be valuable.

>   To repeat a question I've asked before: is there a canonical list
> somewhere of the environment variables that control R CMD check's
> behaviour, e.g. _R_CHECK_DEPENDS_ONLY_. R_CHECK_ENVIRON, etc. - I
> found one in https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-ints.html#Tools
> , is that complete?

More or less, perhaps excluding the env vars that are really meant as
internal and hence not documented :-)

-k

> On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 1:49 PM Josiah Parry <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I received a (valid) CRAN rejection which said
>> 
>> "Please add \value to .Rd files regarding exported methods and explain
>> 
>> the functions results in the documentation."
>> 
>> 
>> My Rd file contained the following which is in the same spirit as the
>> \value but misplaced.
>> 
>> \details{
>> > \code{encode()} returns a \link[blob:blob]{blob::blob} object which is a
>> > list of raw vectors.
>> > If an error is encountered in \code{decode()} the result will be an NA.
>> > }
>> 
>> 
>> This seems to be a new requirement from CRAN and I've failed this on new
>> packages a handful of times (sorry, team!). It would be great to have this
>> for all packages, frankly.
>> 
>> Are there any plans to have R CMD check catch this?
>> 
>> I think it could save everyone time and energy.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> - Josiah
>> 
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