+ - (rev315) the Rmpi, npRmpi and doMPI packages fail at the end of R CMD INSTALL because the test load of the package fails (outside of an MPI context)
+ so added a crude hack that when the debian/rules is written, 'extraInstallArgs="--no-test-load"' is added (as I do for Debian's Rmpi package)
+ conceivably we may want to generalise this one day as we do for lintian tests and patches and either look at at directory or a db table