... and my suggestion for an easy way to skip defined variables comes from
the case of fresh non-vanilla sessions that willingly inherit user-defined
variables from .Rprofile.


2013/4/14 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>

>
> On 14 April 2013 at 14:10, Renaud Gaujoux wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | I know this has been reported/asked before (
> | http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e15/devel/11/10/0831.html) but it
> would
> | still be just nice to have a fix for the not user-friendly fact that one
> | cannot create a completely empty package skeleton (see previous post for
> a
> | suggested patch).
> |
> | In the same vein, I would add to the original suggestion from Herve Pages
> | that it would be nice to have a quick way to create an empty package
> | skeleton, skipping all objects possibly defined in .GlobalEnv, e.g.
> | "package.skeleton('pkg', NA)", although I believe Herve's patch would
> | automatically allow/handle a call like "package.skeleton('pkg',
> | character())".
> |
> | Conclusion, nothing urgent, which could be done in 1min spare time, but
> | could save 1min to many friendly future package developers :)
>
> I am also willing to help here as I do not like the fact that the generated
> Rd file itself is broken.  A hint from R Core that clean patches would be
> taken would be welcomed...
>
> [ And I often call package.skeleton() from a fresh session, that is pretty
> close to creating an empty package. ]
>
> Dirk
>
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