[R] how to build specific doc types in Windows
Gordon Smyth
smyth at wehi.edu.au
Sun May 18 13:12:32 CEST 2003
I am building R packages using R 1.7.0pat under Windows 2000 Professional.
All works fine except that I haven't been able to figure out how to use the
--docs=TYPE option. I would like to optionally turn off building chm help.
I have tried build commands like
rcmd build --binary --docs=TYPE mypackagename
In place of "TYPE" I have tried things like "html", "text", "chm", "t",
"h", "HTML" etc, etc, but all of these break the build entirely. What are
the actual options for --docs=TYPE? I have tried all the documentation
sources I know of, plus hacking the perl code, but can't see what the
options are.
Thanks
Gordon
For easy reference, here is the help output from rcmd build:
Usage: Rcmd build [options] pkgdirs
Build R packages from package sources in the directories specified by
pkgdirs.
Options:
-h, --help print short help message and exit
-v, --version print version info and exit
--force force overwriting of (index) files
--no-vignettes do not rebuild package vignettes
--binary build pre-compiled binary packages, with options:
--docs=TYPE type(s) of documentation to build and install
--auto-zip select zipping of data and help based on size
--use-zip-data collect data files in zip archive
--use-zip-help collect help and examples into zip archives
--use-zip combine '--use-zip-data' and '--use-zip-help'
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