A footnote, following an off-list exchange with Prof Ripley, is that I needed needed to have Suggested or other additional packages installed somewhere other than .Library .
"The following variables control checks for undeclared/unconditional use of other packages. They work by setting up a temporary library directory and setting .libPaths() to just that and .Library, so are only effective if additional packages are installed somewhere other than .Library.” [I am not sure of the source of this quote.] If vignettes make extensive use of Suggested packages, then exiting early from vignettes when access would otherwise be required to Suggested package [under knitr, one can use knitr::knit_exit()] can be an alternative to leaving out checking of vignettes in order to speed up initial testing. On MacOS Mojave with a bash shell env _R_CHECK_DEPENDS_ONLY_=true R CMD check qra_0.2.4.tar.gz works like a charm. Some other Unix systems will omit the ‘=' John Maindonald email: john.maindon...@anu.edu.au<mailto:john.maindon...@anu.edu.au> On 21/10/2021, at 02:31, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org<mailto:e...@debian.org>> wrote: On 20 October 2021 at 09:31, Sebastian Meyer wrote: | If you set the environment variable inside a running R process, it will | only affect that process and child processes, but not an independent R | process launched from a shell like you seem to be doing here: Yes. That is somewhat common, if obscure, knowledge by those bitten before. Maybe a line or two could be / should be added to the docs to that effect? | How to set environment variables is system-specific. On a Unix-like | system, you could use the command | | _R_CHECK_DEPENDS_ONLY_=true R CMD check qra_0.2.4.tar.gz | | to set the environment variable for this R process. | See, e.g., https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FEnvironment_variable&data=04%7C01%7Cjohn.maindonald%40anu.edu.au%7Cb519af02f1df454df49208d993cdea27%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C637703335008269211%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=aCCVvvnWQaRxtzxuUJ5lDKcPfMU2BzCJnDRC%2BTa4TnI%3D&reserved=0. R does have hooks for this, I had these for a few years now: ~/.R/check.Renviron ~/.R/check.Renviron-Rdevel Again, might be worthwhile documenting it in the Inst+Admin manual (if it isn' already, I don't recall right now). Dirk -- https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdirk.eddelbuettel.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cjohn.maindonald%40anu.edu.au%7Cb519af02f1df454df49208d993cdea27%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C637703335008269211%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=5MTPe0%2Ftqou%2B0DI8%2F7C4NYtM3tJCb4Vpwbe4klWiTco%3D&reserved=0 | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org<mailto:e...@debian.org> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
