Call R CMD 'command' with build tools active

This is a wrapper around callr::rcmd_safe() that checks that you have build tools available, and on Windows, automatically sets the path to include Rtools.

rcmd_build_tools(..., env = character(), required = TRUE, quiet = FALSE)

Arguments

...

Parameters passed on to rcmd_safe.

env

Additional environment variables to set. The defaults from callr::rcmd_safe_env() are always set.

required

If TRUE, and build tools are not available, will throw an error. Otherwise will attempt to run code without them.

quiet

if TRUE suppresses output from this function.

Examples

# These env vars are always set
callr::rcmd_safe_env()
#>             CYGWIN            R_TESTS          R_BROWSER        R_PDFVIEWER 
#> "nodosfilewarning"                 ""            "false"            "false" 

if (has_build_tools()) {
  rcmd_build_tools("CONFIG", "CC")$stdout
  rcmd_build_tools("CC", "--version")$stdout
}
#> ── R CMD CONFIG ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#> /opt/R/4.4.1/lib/R/bin/Rcmd: 64: exec: CONFIG: not found
#> ── R CMD CC ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#> /opt/R/4.4.1/lib/R/bin/Rcmd: 64: exec: CC: not found
#> [1] "/opt/R/4.4.1/lib/R/bin/Rcmd: 64: exec: CC: not found\n"