From murdoch.duncan at gmail.com  Fri Jul 25 14:29:47 2014
From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:29:47 -0400
Subject: [Rd] [Wishlist] a 'PackageDevelopment' Task View
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On 25/07/2014 8:05 AM, Luca Braglia wrote:
> 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?

Sounds like a good idea.  You should do it.

Download the "ctv" package, and read the vignette for instructions.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] [Wishlist] a 'PackageDevelopment' Task View
Duncan Murdoch