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

[Joshua Ulrich]

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:23 AM, steven mosher <moshersteven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
That's what Rd2roxygen does...

Best,
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>
> 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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>> Department of Statistics / Rice University
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