[Rd] 'R CMD INSTALL mypkg' doesn't always update help pages

Jari Oksanen jarioksa at sun3.oulu.fi
Wed Jun 6 05:57:19 CEST 2007


On 6 Jun 2007, at 01:45, Herve Pages wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 'R CMD INSTALL mypkg' and 'install.packages(mypkg, repos=NULL)' don't
> update mypkg help pages when mypkg is a source directory. They only
> install new help pages if there are some but they leave the already
> installed pages untouched. So you end up with mixed man pages from
> different versions of the package :-/
>
I have observed this, too.

cheers, Jari Oksanen



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