On 24/07/2021 11:22 a.m., Andrew Simmons wrote:
Hello,I was wondering if anyone has a way to test if a package is currently being installed. My solution was to check if environment variable "R_INSTALL_PKG" was unset, something like: "R CMD INSTALL-ing" <- function () !is.na(Sys.getenv("R_INSTALL_PKG", NA)) Unfortunately, I couldn't find what I was looking for with ?"environment variables". So if anyone has any better methods, I'd be happy to hear them, thank you!
Normally if you want to execute special code during installation, you'd add a Makevars or Makefile to your package and do it there, but R_INSTALL_PKG should be defined during a source install.
I believe that no code from the package is executed during a binary install: it just copies files into the appropriate places.
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