Although there is a directory binless/man/ with manual pages in there, installing binless from the git repository, the manual pages are not installed.
$ R --version
R version 3.5.3 (2019-03-11) -- "Great Truth"
[…]
$ git describe
v0.15.0-4-g067ef87
$ R CMD INSTALL --preclean --debug binless
[…]
installing to /home/joey/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5/binless/libs
** R
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
No man pages found in package ‘binless’
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (binless)
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
modified: binless/NAMESPACE
deleted: binless/man/CSbdiff-class.Rd
deleted: binless/man/CSbsig-class.Rd
deleted: binless/man/CSdata-class.Rd
deleted: binless/man/CSdiff-class.Rd
deleted: binless/man/CSgroup-class.Rd
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So somehow these files are deleted when building the package.
Although there is a directory
binless/man/
with manual pages in there, installingbinless
from the git repository, the manual pages are not installed.So somehow these files are deleted when building the package.