[R] updating one's own package

Wet Bell Diver wetbelldiver at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 19:29:14 CET 2012


Thanks Uwe, that is really helpful.

-Peter


Op 11-2-2012 19:20, Uwe Ligges schreef:
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> On 11.02.2012 13:49, Wet Bell Diver wrote:
>> Win7 x64, R2.14.1
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>> Dear list,
>>
>> I would like to get into the habbit of creating a package for each
>> project. That way I can package my project-specific functions and data
>> together and load or unload that at will. Also, it will allow easy
>> navigation through all the functions I will have available for each
>> project, since I can then use ?myfunction and immediately see the
>> details of that function (esp. useful when revisiting a project after
>> several months).
>> Anyway, I have been successful in constructing a package, using the
>> package.skeleton. My question is how to easily update the package when I
>> write an additional function or rewrite an existing function. Do I then
>> need to again build the package fully, or is there an "incremental
>> update" option somewhere? This I can not find anywhere, maybe I am
>> overlooking something?
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> You can use package.skeleton with force = FALSE in order not to 
> overwrite existing files. Anyway, I typically edit the files of the 
> package directly, without using any helper functions.
> And if you add a new function, you can use prompt() to prepare a 
> corresponding Rd file.
>
> Uwe Ligges
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>> Thanks,
>> Peter
>>
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