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)
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> check_deps <- TRUE
1133a1136,1137
> } else if (a == "--no-check-deps") {
> check_deps <- FALSE
kjetil
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