[Rd] Rprofile.site and check/build (PR#2872)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Liaw, Andy wrote:

> How's this a bug?  It only make sense to run "check" and "build" on source
> packages, but things like R_LIBS points to where *binary* packages are
> install.

R CMD check is going to run an installed version, and that may use other 
packages.  However, these tools have always used --vanilla, and see
?Startup for why that works as stated below.

So this works as intended, checking on a vanilla system.  That's not a 
bug, and definitely not a recent change.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: laurent at cbs.dtu.dk [mailto:laurent at cbs.dtu.dk]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 6:49 AM
> > To: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Cc: R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk
> > Subject: [Rd] Rprofile.site and check/build (PR#2872)
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Apparently R-1.7.0 (and possibly earlier versions too) do 
> > not care much about what is in $R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site
> > when calling 'R CMD check' or 'R CMD build'. This
> > is annoying when having libraries (packages) in alternative locations.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Laurent
> > 
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