From lbraglia at gmail.com  Fri Jul 25 14:05:45 2014
From: lbraglia at gmail.com (Luca Braglia)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:05:45 +0200
Subject: [Rd] [Wishlist] a 'PackageDevelopment' Task View
Message-ID: <CAFOm_+7DUEbtPwz_KS+EEQwsWO9Y7-byhBL4Zki=HP9qGCegxQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hello everybody,

as a young/unexperienced R package developer (only a few, mainly
for personal use) i was thinking it could be very useful having a
"meta" task view for all package-development related
packages and/or function.

Something like ...

Creation
- utils::package.skeleton, pkgKitten, Rcpp::Rcpp.package.skeleton

Foreign languages interfaces:
- Rcpp

Documentation
- roxygen2

Profiling:
- utils::Rprof
- profr
- proftools

Unit test
- RUnit
- testthat

Spell checking
- tools::aspell_package_* functions

"Misc":
- devtools

and so on.

These are only the ones i (use or know) & (remember), but for
sure there is already a lot of useful code in this area and
having a summary (by more experienced developers) of which good
tools are available would be *very* useful, IMHO.

How about it?

Thanks, Luca



[Rd] [Wishlist] a 'PackageDevelopment' Task View
Luca Braglia