build this package R CMD build pkg: builds the package (generates an archive called foo.tar.gz) R CMD build pkg --compact-vignettes --resave-data: same, making the package as small as possible R CMD check phylodesign_1.0-0.gz --as-cran: runs package quality checks similar to the checks made by CRAN; must be passed without error/warning before
install this R package: R CMD INSTALL phylodesign_1.0-0.tar.gz
to view the package content in R: require(phylodesign) library(help=phylodesign)