depRule: A rule that defines a dependency between targets without...

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A rule that defines a dependency between targets without actually providing any execution script.

Description

This rule is useful when you want to specify that a target depends on another target, but you do not want to execute any script to build it.

Usage

depRule(target, depends = NULL, task = "all")

Arguments

target	Target file name that depends on depends
depends	A character vector of prerequisite file names that target depends on.
task	A character vector of parent task names. The mechanism of tasks allows to group rules. Anything different from 'all' will cause creation of a new task depending on the given rule. Executing ⁠make taskname⁠ will then force building of this rule.

Value

Instance of S3 class rmake.rule

Author(s)

Michal Burda

See Also

rule(), makefile()

rmake documentation built on Aug. 26, 2025, 5:09 p.m.