build various versions of a package

build_pkg(
  .pkgdir = ".",
  types = c("source", "binary"),
  repository = NULL,
  origin = NULL,
  addl_meta = NULL,
  supplement_version = FALSE,
  overwrite = TRUE,
  remove_remotes = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

.pkgdir: path to package
types: types of package to build
repository: repository name being built for
origin: package source
addl_meta: additional metadata
supplement_version: add additional version info (unix timestamp) to version. TRUE inspects the pkg folder as a git repo, also may provide a character or numeric value to append
overwrite: overwrite fields already present when adding fields
remove_remotes: delete the remotes field
...: parameters to pass to pkgbuild

Details

supplementing version can be done whenever a build occurs that does not correspond to a formal release/tag. This will automatically add information about the git hash (if available), as well as incrememnt the version number with a unix timestamp that corresponds to the last git hash (if present) or the current system time, if git is not present and no version timestamp is provided.

removing the remotes field can be helpful when dealing with consolidated package installs where all packages are available in a single repository. For example, pulling everything into a posit package manager mirror.