2  States

• Confusingly R packages can be in different states

  

• Files change location depending upon state - see here

• Source - the files you code - what’s in your new folder / GitHub repo

• (Source) bundled - the .tar.gz file of your source files excluding those in .Rbuildignore - what you need to submit to CRAN

• Binary - the ‘compiled’ version of the bundled package compressed (.zip on Windows)

  • the helpfiles converted from .Rd to .html

  • Vignettes compiled to .html

  • any C code etc. will have been compiled

  • /R no longer contains .R files, now contains 3 files that store the parsed functions in an efficient file format - result of loading all the R code and then saving the functions with save()

    

• Installed - the uncompressed zip file in the correct library folder

• In memory - the binary, installed package loaded via library()