R help - May 2012 - Need your help setting $R_check_force_suggests = "FALSE" on Windows system

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Dear friends,

I want to make the following  change of R setting on a windows 7 desktop.

$R_check_force_suggests = "FALSE"

Since I have no experience using Unix, I don't how to make the
suggestions in "writing R extension" works for windows. I will
appreciate if you would help me to figure out what is the equivalent
of the following settings in Windows system.

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In addition to the available command line options, R CMD check also
allows customization by setting (Perl) configuration variables in a
configuration file, the location of which can be specified via the
--rcfile option and defaults to $HOME/.R/check.conf provided that the
environment variable HOME is set.

The following configuration variables are currently available.

$R_check_force_suggests
   If true, give an error if suggested packages are not available.
Default: true.
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Installation paths on my desktop
C:\Rtools
C:\Program Files\R\R-2.15.0\bin\x64

Thank you very much.

Noah

On 15.05.2012 19:23, Zhiqiu Hu wrote:
> r-help at r-project.org
> Dear friends,
>
> I want to make the following  change of R setting on a windows 7 desktop.
>
> $R_check_force_suggests = "FALSE"
You can change it globally in the operating systems defaults for 
environment variable, or for the current session in the Windows command 
shell (cmd) you can simply say

set _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=FALSE

Note the underscores and the upper case spelling!

Uwe Ligges



> Since I have no experience using Unix, I don't how to make the
> suggestions in "writing R extension" works for windows. I will
> appreciate if you would help me to figure out what is the equivalent
> of the following settings in Windows system.
>
> ***********************
> In addition to the available command line options, R CMD check also
> allows customization by setting (Perl) configuration variables in a
> configuration file, the location of which can be specified via the
> --rcfile option and defaults to $HOME/.R/check.conf provided that the
> environment variable HOME is set.
>
> The following configuration variables are currently available.
>
> $R_check_force_suggests
>     If true, give an error if suggested packages are not available.
> Default: true.
> ***********************
>
> Installation paths on my desktop
> C:\Rtools
> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.15.0\bin\x64
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Noah
>
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