[R] Writing R packages in an easier way?

[Michael Friendly]

On 2/11/2011 2:52 AM, Dr. Michael Wolf wrote:
> Dear R colleagues,
>
...
>  From the point of the costs e. g. I had to learn writing help files in
> a TeX-like language. But I'm the typical Word user. My last TeX writings
> were done in the 1990s! If I'm changing only a letter in a source file
> (r-file or help file) I've to build a new package. Seeing the results in
> my eyes this is a very expansive way. It's easier to me to write those
> files in HTML and to change the HTML source code. I don't need help
> files in Rd format.
>

You can make things a whole lot easier by using prompt() to write the 
skeletons of the .Rd files.  Then you have a ready-made template for
your function or data and only need to fill in the details.  Once you
try this, you'll find it's not really any different than HTML markup.

?prompt