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-Original Message-
From: Simon Urbanek
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 4:10 PM
Ross,
R CMD build is the only offical way to build a (source) package in R.
All other "tools" are just convenience wrappers []
Please note that CRAN
-Original Message-
From: Duncan Murdoch
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 3:30 PM
To: Boylan, Ross ; r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] different build tools
On 2024-05-28 6:20 p.m., Boylan, Ross via R-package-devel wrote:
> There are at least 4 ways to build a pack
There are at least 4 ways to build a package:
1. R CMD build
2. pkgbuild::build(), which I believe calls 1.
3. devtools::build(), which calls 2.
4. RStudio GUI, which calls 3.
I recently discovered these don't all behave the same. Invoking bootstrap.R at
the start
requires 2 or g
Thanks for the pointer. You may have been thrown off by some goofs I made in
the intro, which said
> I would like to build the automatically, with requiring either users or
> repositories to have the tools.
The intended meaning, with corrections in **, was
> I would like to build the *custom
I have some documentation that requires external tools to build. I would like
to build the automatically, with requiring either users or repositories to have
the tools. What's the best way to accomplish that.
Specifically one document is written using the LyX word processor, so the
"source" i
