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pkgbuild

The goal of pkgbuild is to make it easy to build packages with compiled code. It provides tools to configure your R session, and check that everything is working ok. If you are using RStudio, it also helps you trigger automatic install of the build tools.

Installation

You can install pkgbuild from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("r-lib/pkgbuild")

Example

# Check that you have the build tools installed
pkgbuild::check_build_tools(debug = TRUE)

# Build a package
pkgbuild::build("/path/to/my/package")

# Run your own code in an environment guaranteed to 
# have build tools available
pkgbuild::with_build_tools(my_code)

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install.packages('pkgbuild')

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Version

1.2.0

License

MIT + file LICENSE

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Maintainer

Jim Hester

Last Published

December 15th, 2020

Functions in pkgbuild (1.2.0)

compiler_flags

Default compiler flags used by devtools.
rtools_path

Is Rtools installed?
has_latex

Is latex installed?
clean_dll

Remove compiled objects from /src/ directory
has_build_tools

Are build tools are available?
pkg_has_src

Does a source package have src/ directory?
build

Build package
compile_dll

Compile a .dll/.so from source.
rcmd_build_tools

Call R CMD 'command' with build tools active
needs_compile

Does the package need recompiling? (i.e. is there a source or header file newer than the dll)
rtools_needed

Retrieve a text string with the rtools version needed
pkg_links_to_rcpp

Test if a package path is linking to Rcpp or cpp11
has_compiler

Is a compiler available?
pkgbuild_process

Build package in the background
with_debug

Temporarily set debugging compilation flags.
without_compiler

Tools for testing pkgbuild