package.skeleton {utils}R Documentation

Create a Skeleton for a New Source Package

Description

package.skeleton automates some of the setup for a new source package. It creates directories, saves functions and data to appropriate places, and creates skeleton help files and ‘README’ files describing further steps in packaging.

Usage

package.skeleton(name = "anRpackage", list, environment = .GlobalEnv,
                 path = ".", force = FALSE)

Arguments

name character string: the directory name for your package.
list character vector naming the R objects to put in the package.
environment if list is omitted, the contents of this environment are packaged.
path path to put the package directory in.
force If FALSE will not overwrite an existing directory.

Details

The package sources are placed in subdirectory name of path.

This tries to create filenames valid for all OSes known to run R. Invalid characters are replaced by _, invalid names are preceded by zz, and finally the converted names are made unique by make.unique(sep = "_"). This can be done for code and help files but not data files (which are looked for by name).

Value

used for its side-effects.

References

Read the Writing R Extensions manual for more details.

Once you have created a source package you need to install it: see the R Installation and Administration manual, INSTALL and install.packages.

See Also

prompt

Examples

## two functions and two "data sets" :
f <- function(x,y) x+y
g <- function(x,y) x-y
d <- data.frame(a=1, b=2)
e <- rnorm(1000)

package.skeleton(list=c("f","g","d","e"), name="mypkg")


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