[R] Validating R after it has been installed!

[Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at]

>>>>> On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 01:53:05 -0200,
>>>>> hzi  (h) wrote:

  > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 08:51:11PM +0100, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
  >> Leslie_Branch at hgsi.com writes:
  >> 
  >> > While compiling R (Any version) you run configure, make test, and then make
  >> > install.  After which you are done.  I am wondering if there is a way we
  >> > can run the "make test" part again on what was just installed.  If I
  >> > understand the process correctly when you initially run "make test" you are
  >> > testing R in the test area and not the install directory.  Is it something
  >> > as simple as changing the BASEDIR in the makefile or is it a bit more
  >> > complicated.
  >> 
  >> Installation is almost exclusively a copying operation, so
  >> it is unlikely that installation would break the kind of thing
  >> that "make test" checks for, but you could change the definition of $R
  >> in the makefiles inside tests/ and tests/Examples. 
  >> 
  > Hello-
  > 	A bit off-topic, but shouldn't CRAN publish the MD5 checksums for R?

Yes, there are plans to do so, but I didn't have time yet to implement
it (next week is the last of the semester and time is currently packed
with teaching and exams).

fritz

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