check.patch.versions {mvbutils}

Check consistency of maintained package versions

Description

Utility to compare version numbers of the different "instances" of one of your maintained packages. Only the most up-to-date folders relevant to the running R version are checked; see mvbutils.packaging.tools.

The "instances" checked are:

• the task package itself (in eg ..mypack$mypack.VERSION)

• the source package created by pre.install

• the installed package, maintained by patch.install

• the tarball package, created by build.pkg

• the binary package, created by build.pkg.binary

The care argument controls what's shown. Mismatches when care="installed" should be addressed by patch.install, because something has gotten out-of-synch (probably when maintaining the same version of a package for different R versions). Mismatches with the built ("tarball" and "binary") packages are not necessarily a problem, just an indication of work-in-progress.

Usage

check.patch.versions(care = NULL)

Arguments

care

if non-NULL, a character vector with elements in the set "installed", "source", "tarball", and "binary". Only packages where there's a version mismatch between these fields and the task package version will be shown.

Value

A character matrix with maintained packages as rows, and the different instances as columns. "NA" indicates that a version couldn't be found.