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Asked: 2026-05-17T20:48:20+00:00

I have a R package in the directory ~/package; I also keep the output

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I have a R package in the directory ~/package; I also keep the output from my use of the package in the directory ~/package/out. When the content of ~/package/out gets very large, it takes minutes instead of seconds to build this package. Is there a way to have “R CMD build package” ignore the ~/package/out directory?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are a little short on details about what is in there — but R CMD respects .Rbuildignore.

    Here is a real example:

    edd@max:~$ cat svn/rinside/pkg/.Rbuildignore 
inst/doc/html
inst/doc/latex
inst/doc/man
inst/doc
inst/lib
edd@max:~$

    which tells R CMD build to ignore the doxygen=-generated documentation, as well as a library directory.

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