At 04:06 06/02/2012, Joshua Wiley wrote:
Hi Tom,
I don't believe there is a standard location. You can set variables
or have functions run (say to source other functions in) in your
.Rprofile file. That way, you always have them. Once you get more
than a handful of functions, it is probably time to consider putting
them into your own package. This allows you to document them etc.
then accessing them is as easy as loading your package. Also makes
checking and distributing to others easier of that ever comes up.
May I endorse Josh's suggestion to consider writing your own package
to include them. I put off doing this for too long. There is a bit of
learning to do first but the investment will repay itself. You need
the extensions manual, at least the early chapters.
Hope this helps,
Josh
On Feb 5, 2012, at 19:48, Tom Roche <tom_ro...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> I'm new but am already starting to accumulate utility functions for
> the fairly specialized kinds of data files with which I work. I'd like
> to keep those functions in a single folder, or filetree rooted at a
> specific folder under my $HOME (I'm running linux), for ease of
>
> * source()-ing
> * git commit to bitbucket
> * scp to clusters
>
> I'm wondering,
>
> 1 is there a canonical location for personal functions, notably on
> linuxen?
>
> 2 how can one make that location most easily available? or must one
> always provide either a relative path from one's R cwd, or an FQ
> path to, the personal-functions folder?
>
> Apologies if this is a FAQ, but I didn't see anything about it @
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html
>
> or in casual rseek-ing.
>
> TIA, Tom Roche <tom_ro...@pobox.com>
>
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