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Construct a Built field value for the current build environment

built_stamp.Rd

cranlike derives package metadata from the CRAN source DESCRIPTION, which never carries a Built: field (R stamps that only when it builds a binary). Our S3 tarballs are binaries, so we pass this stamp to cranlike::update_PACKAGES()/cranlike::add_PACKAGES() to advertise them as such. Binary-aware clients (e.g. uvr) key their binary-vs-source decision on the Built: platform triple + R minor; without it they treat the repo as source-only and compile everything, which needs system -dev libraries.

Usage

built_stamp(
  platform = R.version$platform,
  r_version = getRversion(),
  time = Sys.time()
)

Arguments

platform

Platform triple, defaulting to R.version$platform.

r_version

R version, defaulting to getRversion().

time

Build time, defaulting to Sys.time().

Details

The triple comes from R.version$platform and the version from getRversion(), so this must run in the same build environment that produced the binaries (the surrounding arch/codename logic already assumes this).