On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:31 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > I'm working in RStudio on a Mac, in case that makes any difference.
Yes, RStudio probably does its own thing in "Install and restart". The pre-clean of course removes the object files from the package src/ directory, so the next load_all() will need to recompile everything. > Your last paragraph is incorrect if "you" is taken to be me rather than > a generic developer: I *often* want to install the package while > working on it. I like the help system to work; I like to work on the > source code and help pages together. I meant 'you' to be generic, and yes, YMMV. After devtools::load_all(), `?` will show the help pages of the `load_all()`-d package, not the installed one. So just to get the help pages of the dev package, you don't need to install it. E.g. after I `load_all()` rgl, I get > ?rgl::rgl.bbox ℹ Rendering development documentation for 'rgl.bbox' But there are certainly other good reasons to install the package, and I am sure that with ccache it is not that bad. [...] G. ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel