[R] Writing Rcmdr Plugins

[stephen sefick]

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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Irina Ursachi
<irina.ursachi at itwm.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to write a plugin for the RCommander and having troubles
> understanding how to actually do that. I have read Mr. Fox's tutorial
> about writing Rcmdr plugins and though.... it seems to me that some
> steps are missing.  I would like to know, whether there are some
> Commands which generate a plugin package out of a given library. Or do
> we just have to attach the .First.lib function and the menus.txt data to
> the library? Out of the RcmdrPlugin.TeachingDemos example I could see,
> that one of the differences between the plugin and the library, is the
> fact that the plugin package also contains the "etc" subdirectory... so
> I suppose my plugin package should contain one too, right?
> The way I was trying to build my plugin package (and it didn't work )
> was: I installed Rcmdr, the latest version locally, in a folder named
> "Rlib". There is where I also installed my library and trying to use the
> "require" command to load it into R Commander. What I don't understand,
> is how to build the RcmdrPlugin.*?
> I would really appreciate, if somebody could help me with that, or maybe
> just recommend me a tutorial.
>
> Best regards,
> Irina Ursachi.
>
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