# R CMD Tools

Eclipse allows to define so-called External Tools. The StatET plug-in offers a convenient interface to define launch configurations for all R CMD Tools. This allows to build, check and install packages using the R version and options of your choice and by simple selecting the configured configurations from a menu in the GUI.

As can be seen from the screenshot, the output of the R CMD Tools is nicely displayed in the Console view in Eclipse.

### R CMD Sweave

It is possible as well to define a specific configuration for R CMD Sweave.

Note that the Sweave Add-on of StatET offers more flexible ways of Sweaving with or without using a R CMD Sweave configuration.