[Rd] package.skeleton

[Uwe Ligges]

James MacDonald wrote:

>>R.version.string
> 
> [1] "R version 2.1.0, 2005-03-17"
> 
> I don't see anything in either https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/NEWS
> or in the Changes file for R-2.1.0 about changes in package.skeleton()
> (nor in the help page), but when I run this function, all the .Rd files
> produced are of the data format even if all I have in my .GlobalEnv are
> functions.
> 
> A trivial example is to run the examples from the package.skeleton()
> help page. I believe there should be two data type and two function type
> .Rd files, but instead they are all of the data type.



Yes, I think package.skeleton() needs the follwing simple fix (since we 
do not get() each object in prompt() any more - alternatively, reverting 
some changes in prompt() fixes it as well):


@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
      sink(outConn, type = "output")
      yy <- try(sapply(list,
                       function(item) {
-                         prompt(item,
+                         prompt(name = item,
                                  filename = file.path(path, name, "man",
                                  paste(list0[item], "Rd", sep=".")))
                       }))



Uwe Ligges




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> Jim
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