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It seems that R 2.14 can byte-compile packages using a switch on R CMD INSTALL but I couldn’t find such an option in the install.packages documentation. Am I missing something?
As it says in
?install.packages, you can use theINSTALL_opts=argument to pass additional options toR CMD INSTALLfor a source package install. If you’re installing a binary package from CRAN, it’s likely already byte-compiled.For example, to install from source and byte-compile manually (make sure you have the necessary tools):