Thanks! That’s perfect. Key is to load the local github repo into an Rstudio project first.
-- Aron Lindberg Doctoral Candidate, Information Systems Weatherhead School of Management Case Western Reserve University aronlindberg.github.io On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Thierry Onkelinx <thierry.onkel...@inbo.be> wrote: > Dear Aron, > - Set the build tools in RStudio to build a package (via Tools -> Project > options -> Build tools) > - Use the Build pane to "Build" and then "Check" the package > Best regards, > Thierry > ir. Thierry Onkelinx > Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and > Forest > team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance > Kliniekstraat 25 > 1070 Anderlecht > Belgium > To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more > than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say > what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher > The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner > The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not > ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. > ~ John Tukey > 2015-02-18 17:12 GMT+01:00 Aron Lindberg <aron.lindb...@case.edu>: >> Hi All, >> >> >> In short: what’s a good workflow for forking/rewriting/testing code in >> packages? >> >> >> I’m trying to contribute to a package on Github. So I fork it and then >> clone my forked repo into my desktop, and then I open the files I want to >> edit in RStudio. >> >> >> However, to actually test that the code works, I need to load the package >> from the local version on my machine. I think I can do this using: >> >> >> library(rgithub, lib.loc = “/Users/Aron/github/local/rgithub/“) >> >> >> However, this fails: >> >> >> Error in library(rgithub, lib.loc = “/Users/Aron/github/local/“) : >> there is no package called ‘rgithub’ >> >> >> Do I need to install the library from the local repo first somehow? How do >> I do this? >> >> >> If I got it to work I assume I would be able to run >> >> >> sessionInfo() >> >> >> Which would then enable me to see which version of the package is loaded. >> However, the version number would be the same as the package that I can >> install using devtools, e.g. devtools::install_github(“cscheid/rgithub”. >> How can I check whether I have loaded my local development copy or the >> “official” copy that I also have on my machine? >> >> >> In short: what’s a good workflow for forking/rewriting/testing code in >> packages? >> >> >> Best, >> Aron >> >> >> -- >> Aron Lindberg >> >> >> Doctoral Candidate, Information Systems >> Weatherhead School of Management >> Case Western Reserve University >> aronlindberg.github.io >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
