[Rd] Please explain your workflow from R code -> package -> R code -> package

[steven mosher]

All I need now is a tool to go through the 4 packages I already
created without Roxygen and  spit out source files with the Roxygen
comments in them...

really lazy.



On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Hadley Wickham <hadley at rice.edu> wrote:
>> | In other languages, I've seen to write the documentation inside the
>> | code files and then post-process to make the documentation.  Is there
>> | a similar thing for R, to unify the R code development and
>> | documentation/package-making process?
>>
>> You can also follow the cool kids who these days tie some of this together
>> using roxygen.
>
> It's not the cool kids who are doing this, it's the lazy kids ;)
> Roxygen(2) does remove a considerable amount of replication between
> code and documentation (e.g. replicating function usage in two
> places), and the close proximity between code and documentation does
> make it easier to remember to update your documentation when the code
> changes.
>
> Roxygen2 adds a few other tools for reducing duplication like
> templates, the ability to inherit parameter documentation from other
> function, and the family tag to automatically add seealso references
> between all members of a related family of functions.  These are
> things that are painful to do by hand and add a significance
> maintenance burden.
>
> I agree that there's no silver bullet, but good tools certainly can
> make life easier.
>
> Hadley
>
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