On 21 April 2016 at 21:06, Jonathon Love wrote: | yeah, i'm more than happy to just rely on the package loading test, but | this seemed like a good opportunity to expand my understanding of what's | going on.
You risk mixing/confusing two concepts. At the most basic level: - every R package installs everything below inst/ as is; ie inst/sometests/ becomes sometests/ in the R package directory - R packages only ever touch the filetree below their directory in the first directory in .libPaths (typically /usr/lib/R/site-library for normal packages but /usr/lib/R/library/ for the core and recommended packages) - Debian does its things with dh_* et al. Don't confuse the latter with the former. Conversely, if you want to get to /usr/share/doc/r-cran-somepackage/ you cannot rely on R mechanisms per point 2 above. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
