From edd at debian.org  Wed Jan 31 13:53:34 2018
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 06:53:34 -0600
Subject: [Rd] Best practices in developing package: From a single file
In-Reply-To: <CABdHhvHaZCDnetJL+QW+-1moka-wy4+DtihM2M9nD8u_Yay6Og@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAPtbhHwLXvdCX+1PJvEAyjWtcaVf=k4kL2fgXNhxLqfBhoJg-Q@mail.gmail.com>
 <1517329742.15543.15.camel@braverock.com>
 <aef83954-b118-6f8f-6d4f-d2a9758121cc@gmail.com>
 <CY4PR2001MB10641A6B87B06111469FDBD0BEE40@CY4PR2001MB1064.namprd20.prod.outlook.com>
 <23152.57287.697853.990831@rob.eddelbuettel.com>
 <ac51f4f1-c71e-9555-9668-10e2c880c04a@gmail.com>
 <CABdHhvHaZCDnetJL+QW+-1moka-wy4+DtihM2M9nD8u_Yay6Og@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <23153.48206.980440.490874@rob.eddelbuettel.com>


(Please do not quote without attribution)

On 30 January 2018 at 20:44, Hadley Wickham wrote:
| Personally, I think the biggest problem with package.skeleton() is
| that it assumes that the source of truth is objects in an environment.
| This seems the wrong way around to me.

Basically irrelevant as it is optional behaviour.  With various packages at
work I may by now have created several dozen packages via package.skeleton(),
and I essentially never submitted an existing function.

Dirk

-- 
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org



[Rd] Best practices in developing package: From a single file
Dirk Eddelbuettel