Thanks to all for the replys. I've learned several things First -- I didn't miss anything obvious in the documentation. This is good in one sense at least: I wasn't being blind. I had one misunderstanding pointed out, which is that I need not worry about my test suite being run with each INSTALL; that happens with CHECK.
Second, I heard several good ideas for attacking the problem. Terry T. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel