[Rd] R CMD <custom>?

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Hadley Wickham <hadley at rice.edu> wrote:
>> That does seem to mix up namespaces quite a bit.
>
> That was just a proposal - equally
>
> R CMD mypackage::mycommand
>
> could just run
>
> mypackage::mycommand()
>
> but then passing argument might get a bit confusing.
>
>> But what does it get you
>> that "Rscript -e" doesn't already give you?  You can set up your package so
>> that
>>
>> R CMD mypackage::mycommand
>>
>> executes a function, using delayedAssign or some of the more exotic features
>> (like external pointers and finalizers).
>
> Because you have to specify the path to that package?  R CMD roxygen2
> is much easier to type, remember and is portable, compared to
> ~/R/roxygen2/something.r.  It also makes R CMD scripts extensible by
> packages in a consistent manner.

When people run R CMD build, R CMD INSTALL, R CMD check etc, they are
in a well defined working directory.  It can be assumed that R CMD
roxygen2 will be executed in the same directory.  As so as you enter
the R prompt, you cannot assume this working directory, and you have
to document/specify which directory the command should be executed on.
 Because of this, I favor an 'R CMD roxygen2' solution.

My use case/wish is to be able to provide 'R CMD Rdoc' (similar to 'R
CMD roxygen2') and 'R CMD rsp' (similar to 'R CMD Sweave').

/Henrik

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> Hadley
>
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