For the purpose of helping in installing only parts of a package (in my case, the help system), R CMD INSTALL should accept a flag --no-check-deps
Below is a diff for R-devel, svn revision 53672 kje...@kjetil:~/R/R-devel/src/library/tools/R$ diff install.R.old install.R 116a117 > " --no-check-deps skip test if installed > depends/imports", 506c507 < if (length(miss) > 1) --- > if ((length(miss) > 1) && check_deps) 510c511 < else if (length(miss)) --- > else if (length(miss) && check_deps) 1025a1027 > check_deps <- TRUE 1133a1136,1137 > } else if (a == "--no-check-deps") { > check_deps <- FALSE kjetil ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel