you're right, it's more of a general solution.  I end up with multiple
versions of annotation packages, multiple namespaces' worth of S4 generics,
etc. floating around and it is a nice swiss army chainsaw (like many of
Hadley's packages) with some remaining rough edges.  The ability to just
"find a bigger hammer" appeals to me, but a purposeful solution is probably
better for the problem at hand.


On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Steve Lianoglou <
mailinglist.honeypot@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Tim Triche, Jr. <tim.triche@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > One solution to the issue of managing packages in your R
> > namespace/environment is Hadley Wickham's devtools
> > package<https://github.com/hadley/devtools#readme>.
> >  I am surprised more people don't use it for this
>
> I actually tried using that a while ago in order to help make package
> development easier, but:
>
> (1) Isn't that more for being able to work with "source" packages w/o
> having to install them; and
> (2) as an aside, back then it had some problems with S4-isms (which
> may have been fixed by now)
>
> As with most all of Hadley's work -- I think devtools is (will be)
> great, but I don't quite see how that's the right tool for this job,
> though ... ?
>
> -steve
>
> --
> Steve Lianoglou
> Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology
>  | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
>  | Weill Medical College of Cornell University
> Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact
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