[R] Writing R packages in an easier way?

[Dr. Michael Wolf]

Dear collegues,

thanks for your helpfull and persuasive comments. I see that all of you propose 
to work with the official method building R packages. The code of importing 
functions which Barry Rowlingson posted to the forum is very interesting and 
perhaps I can use this for solving other problems.
I'm thinking about a monitoring project with R in the center of my working. 
Therefore I need help files for describing my programming code.

In the consequence of this I have to accept that using the official R way of 
writing a package will be the best in the long run - even it will take some time 
to me especially to write the help files. SO I will reactivate my RTools and TeX!

Best regards

Dr. Michael Wolf
(m-wolf at muenster.de)


Am 11.02.2011 18:49, schrieb Uwe Ligges:
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> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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> Actually, just say
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> R CMD INSTALL --build package
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> which will generate the zip in a supported way.
>
> Uwe Ligges
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>> S Ellison
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