R devel - Sep 2000 - 1.2 R CMD check

I've taken a quick look at the 1.2 snapshot to see what is coming. Is it my
imagination or is it quite a bit faster?

I noticed that "R CMD check" now seems to do much more: install, check
examples,
check dvi (&pdf?).  I think it is great to have this kind of comprehensive
check
of a package, especially once everything in the package is suppose to be
working.

But when I am still in development mode I would also like to be able to run the
pieces separately so that development is faster, and I don't see how to do
that.  I can see how to set   --no-latex, but is there a way to avoid re-doing
install?  (BTW, the usage for check says "Finally, the package is installed
into
the log directory" but I have the impression that the install is the first
thing
that is done.) Or should I consider "R CMD check" as the thing to do
first and
then somehow move the libraries installed in the *.Rcheck log directories into
$RHOME/library so that everything that depends on them gets the new version? Or
should I be somehow be setting things so that $RHOME/library is the  log
directory?

Thanks,
Paul Gilbert

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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> I've taken a quick look at the 1.2 snapshot to see what is coming. Is
it my
> imagination or is it quite a bit faster?
On some machines and tasks, yes. It depends critically on the performance
of malloc we found, to the extent that on Windows we had to find another
malloc to avoid a massive slowdown.
> I noticed that "R CMD check" now seems to do much more: install,
check examples,
> check dvi (&pdf?).  I think it is great to have this kind of
comprehensive check
> of a package, especially once everything in the package is suppose to be
> working.
Most of the functionality of `build' has been moved to `check'.
> But when I am still in development mode I would also like to be able to run
the
> pieces separately so that development is faster, and I don't see how to
do
> that.  I can see how to set   --no-latex, but is there a way to avoid
re-doing
> install?  (BTW, the usage for check says "Finally, the package is
installed into
> the log directory" but I have the impression that the install is the
first thing
> that is done.) Or should I consider "R CMD check" as the thing to
do first and
> then somehow move the libraries installed in the *.Rcheck log directories
into
> $RHOME/library so that everything that depends on them gets the new
version? Or
> should I be somehow be setting things so that $RHOME/library is the  log
> directory?
It's not finished yet, you will notice from the perl code.  But yes, it
does do its own install as one of the things it is checking is that a
virgin install gets the results correct.  I just do an install into my
library directory of the version I intend to distribute after check and
build.  Nothing I have seen (not even nlme) takes anything like as long
to install as to check.

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