proposal for new flag to R CMD INSTALL
Why do you think dependencies are not needed for the help system? At some point they will be needed to resolve cross-references: at install time if you are generating static HTML. I've not seen any issues that cannot be solved by --install=fake: I have fake installs of a few packages (e.g. ROracle) to allow others to be tested (including their help pages).
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
For the purpose of helping in installing only parts of a package (in my case, the help system), R CMD INSTALL should accept a flag --no-check-deps Below is a diff for R-devel, svn revision 53672 kjetil at kjetil:~/R/R-devel/src/library/tools/R$ diff install.R.old install.R 116a117
" --no-check-deps skip test if installed depends/imports",
506c507 < if (length(miss) > 1) ---
if ((length(miss) > 1) && check_deps)
510c511 < else if (length(miss)) ---
else if (length(miss) && check_deps)
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check_deps <- TRUE
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} else if (a == "--no-check-deps") {
check_deps <- FALSE
kjetil
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