[R] Customizing the package build process

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On 11/23/05, Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 10:49 +0100, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> > Ross Boylan wrote:
> ....
> > > P.S. Previous list postings advised that R CMD install was a better way
> > > to produce binaries than R CMD build --binary.  The former command
> > > doesn't seem to have any options for making binaries; has that facility
> > > been removed?
> >
> > No, you can use:
> >
> > R CMD INSTALL --build
> >
> >
> > Uwe Ligges
> I was looking at R CMD install --help.  I didn't realize the upper lower
> case versions of install differed.  That's a little confusing.

R --help does not list 'install' as a valid command, and on my system

R CMD install --help

basically just runs

install --help

-Deepayan