run_R_CMD: Run 'R CMD'
In pkgutils: Utilities for Creating R Packages

Description Usage Arguments Details Value See Also Examples

Externally call R CMD, e.g. for checking or installing R packages, or conduct some postprocessing after checking or installation.

  run_R_CMD(x, ...)

  ## S3 method for class 'character'
 run_R_CMD(x, what = "check", ...,
    sudo = identical(what, "INSTALL"),
    system.args = list())

  copy_pkg_files(x, ...)

  ## S3 method for class 'character'
 copy_pkg_files(x, what = "scripts",
    to = file.path(Sys.getenv("HOME"), "bin"),
    installed = TRUE, ignore = NULL, overwrite = TRUE, ...)

  delete_o_files(x, ...)

  ## S3 method for class 'character'
 delete_o_files(x, ext = "o",
    ignore = NULL, ...)

`x`	For `run_R_CMD`, a character vector with arguments passed to `R CMD <what>`. If these are the names of one to several package directories, the package name alone does not suffice unless the package is a subdirectory of the working directory. For `copy_pkg_files` and `delete_o_files`, a character vector passed as eponymous argument to `pkg_files`.
`what`	Character scalar with the name of the command used by `R CMD`, or (for `copy_pkg_files`) a character vector with the names of subdirectories to copy.
`sudo`	Logical scalar. Prepend a `sudo` call to the command? Probably makes only sense on UNIX-like systems.
`system.args`	Optional list of arguments passed to `system` from the base package.
`to`	Character vector indicating the target folder(s) or file(s).
`overwrite`	Logical scalar passed to `file.copy` from the base package (in addition to `from` and `to`).
`ext`	Character vector with file extensions to consider. Need not contain the leading dot. Content of `.Platform$dynlib.ext` is added automatically.
`...`	For `run_R_CMD`, optional command-line switches passed to `R CMD <what>`. In contrast to `x`, leading dashes are automatically prepended as necessary. For `copy_pkg_files`, optional arguments passed to `file.copy` from the base package.
`installed`	Logical scalar. If `TRUE`, the package(s) are searched using `find.package`. Otherwise `pkg` is treated as list of directories and/or file names, distinguished using `is_pkg_dir`.
`ignore`	`NULL` or a character vector of file names (without their directory-name parts) to remove from the result, or a list. Ignored if empty. If a non-empty character vector, matching is done case- insensitively. If a list, used as arguments passed to `grep` (except for `x`, `value` and `invert`). Enclosing `ignore` in `I()` reverts the action.

Windows users might need to install Rtools for run_R_CMD to work, see https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/.

copy_pkg_files copies package files after installation. This is mainly intended for script files, which should often be placed in a directory for executable files. The docu.R and merge.R scripts that come with the pkgutils package are examples for such files.

delete_o_files removes object files in the ‘src’ subdirectory of a package remaining from previous compilation attempts, if any.

The return value of run_R_CMD is the one of the call of R CMD, depending on system.args, by default an integer indicating success or failure.

copy_pkg_files returns a logical vector. See file.copy from the base package for details.

delete_o_files also returns a logical vector, this time indicating whether deletion succeeded. See file.remove from the base package.

base::system base::file.copy base::file.remove

Other package-functions: check_R_code, check_Sweave_start, is_pkg_dir, logfile, pack_desc, pkg_files, swap_code,

# Running R CMD <what>: see the 'docu.R' script provided with this package,
# options '--check', # '--install' and '--yes'.

# Copying files: see the 'docu.R' script provided with this package, options
# '--target' and '--exclude'.

# Deleting object files: see the 'docu.R' script provided with this package,
# option '--zapoff'.