[Rd] Best practices in developing package: From a single file

[Hadley Wickham]

>> There is package.skeleton() in base R as you already mentioned. It drove
>> me
>> bonkers that it creates packages which then fail R CMD check, so I wrote a
>> wrapper package (pkgKitten) with another helper function (kitten()) which
>> calls the base R helper and then cleans up it---but otherwise remains
>> faithful to it.
>
>
> Failing R CMD check isn't a big deal:  you want to be reminded to edit those
> incomplete help files.  But I think I recall that you couldn't even build
> the package that package.skeleton() created, and that indeed would be
> irritating, especially if you had a lot of functions so you had a lot of
> cleanup to do.  I don't know if that's still true because I generally use
> RStudio to create the initial package structure rather than calling
> package.skeleton myself.

Personally, I think the biggest problem with package.skeleton() is
that it assumes that the source of truth is objects in an environment.
This seems the wrong way around to me.

Hadley

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