CMD check - where/what/how?

Simon Fear writes:

I've seen a few recent references here to `passing the R CMD
check'. Is this Unix/Linux only? (I'm presuming it's some kind of
function reference check ... that would be really useful)

Yes sorry this is not documented.  It definitely works under Unix.
Usage is

	R CMD check [options] [-l lib] pkg_1 ... pkg_n

where `pkg_i' is the file path to the sources of the ith package for
checking.  Currently, only the examples are checked for completion of
execution, more will be added in the future.

-k

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I've seen a few recent references here to `passing the R CMD check'. Is
this Unix/Linux only? (I'm presuming it's some kind of function
reference check ... that would be really useful)

Yes, at present. What it does is to run all the examples on the help
pages of a package, which may be useful if there are any!  It needs the
package source as well (although in principle it need not).

I am working on a Windows equivalent.

Brian

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