how to build specific doc types in Windows
That option is passed to INSTALL, and Rcmd INSTALL has help which tells you. I think you want --docs=normal. I would have thought INSTALL was the obvious place to look (especially form the Perl code). I normally build binary packages via Rcmd INSTALL --build in the source tree: this ensures that help references get resolved correctly, which Rcmd build --binary does not.
On Sun, 18 May 2003, Gordon Smyth wrote:
I am building R packages using R 1.7.0pat under Windows 2000 Professional. All works fine except that I haven't been able to figure out how to use the --docs=TYPE option. I would like to optionally turn off building chm help. I have tried build commands like rcmd build --binary --docs=TYPE mypackagename In place of "TYPE" I have tried things like "html", "text", "chm", "t", "h", "HTML" etc, etc, but all of these break the build entirely. What are the actual options for --docs=TYPE? I have tried all the documentation sources I know of, plus hacking the perl code, but can't see what the options are. Thanks Gordon For easy reference, here is the help output from rcmd build: Usage: Rcmd build [options] pkgdirs Build R packages from package sources in the directories specified by pkgdirs. Options: -h, --help print short help message and exit -v, --version print version info and exit --force force overwriting of (index) files --no-vignettes do not rebuild package vignettes --binary build pre-compiled binary packages, with options: --docs=TYPE type(s) of documentation to build and install --auto-zip select zipping of data and help based on size --use-zip-data collect data files in zip archive --use-zip-help collect help and examples into zip archives --use-zip combine '--use-zip-data' and '--use-zip-help'
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