[R] Writing R packages in an easier way?

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

Another option is to go ahead and make the package structure you're
used to, but try to load and use it via Hadley's devtools package,
instead of installing it for use.

It might do the trick for you:

https://github.com/hadley/devtools

-steve


On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Dr. Michael Wolf <m-wolf at muenster.de> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>
>> On 11.02.2011 13:38, S Ellison wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> "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
>>
>>
>>> S Ellison
>>>
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