R: Utilities for Building and Checking Add-on Packages

PkgUtils {base} | R Documentation

## Utilities for Building and Checking Add-on Packages

### Description

Utilities for checking whether the sources of an R add-on package work correctly, and for building a source or binary package from them.

### Usage

    R CMD build [options] pkgdirs
    R CMD check [options] pkgdirs

### Arguments

`pkgdirs` | a list of names of directories with sources of R add-on packages.
`options` | further options to control the processing, or for obtaining information about usage and version of the utility.

### Details

`R CMD check` checks R add-on packages from their sources, performing a wide variety of diagnostic checks.

`R CMD build` builds R source or binary packages from their sources.

Use `R CMD foo --help` to obtain usage information on utility `foo`.

### See Also

The chapter ``Processing Rd format'' in ``Writing R Extensions'' (see the ``doc/manual`' subdirectory of the R source tree).

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