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

[steven mosher]

Thanks, I was too lazy to even look for it.



On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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