[R] Writing R packages in an easier way?

[Uwe Ligges]

On 11.02.2011 13:38, S Ellison wrote:
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>>>> "Dr. Michael Wolf"<m-wolf at muenster.de>  11/02/2011 07:52>>>
>> is there an easier way to write R packages for the own use - without
> RTools and TeX?
>
> Installing Rtools is not hard, and doesn't have to happen often; the
> hardest bit in Windows is making sure that the requisite executables are
> on the path, and that just involves adding the directory names to the
> path environment variable. If I understand you, the problem is the time
> spent hacking about in the .Rd help files. That can certainly be
> simplified - eliminated, in fact.
>
> Use package.skeleton() once you have a good starting set of functions
> and data in R. That creates all the necessary directories, creates
> skeleton (but valid) .Rd files, and exports your functions and data
> objects for you. You can then edit the code directly, use RCMD check to
> check the package (useful anyway) and use RCMD build to build it. (In
> fact if all you want is the zip, you can - or at least could - zip the
> package directory created by RCMD check).


Actually, just say

R CMD INSTALL --build  package

which will generate the zip in a supported way.

Uwe Ligges


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