I have an R package Bond Lab which actually supports a book Investing in MBS using R and Open Source Computing. The Bond Lab beta is stable. I have also created a package companion to investing in MBS. Both are on my Github site
https://github.com/glennmschultz/ I wrote the companion as functions for each chapter calling source code. I really don't like the way it works presentation wise but the user could see the code used. Further, the user must create a directory and copy the source into the directory. Further the source runs all examples at once which seems a little confusion. However, to illustrate a function for chapter example I think I have to make a function to call a function which does not make sense. My first question, any suggestions on illustrating function call aside from the strategy I am using. I am not a fan of what I am doing. My second question regards on.load() vs. on.attach() Bond Lab needs to create the BondLab directory which installs in the BondLab library to the ~/users directory, the same for the companion. I think I should use on.load(), correct? I am not sure how to do this and will the same function work for both Windows and MAC? Do I need different copy from path for Windows and MAC or can it be generic since the copy happens at load. I would like to get Bond Lab on CRAN. I read CRAN rules require a yes/no from the user to write a directory. So, I need to write an on.load() function for both Bond Lab and the Companion. Also, CRAN requires that a package works on at least two systems so I need to figure out the Windows build. This leads to another question. Can I somehow make a windows binary on a MAC? If not, can I emulate Windows on a MAC and make a binary? Seems like this may not be 100%. Will I actually have to buy a windows machine to build the windows binary for CRAN? Glenn ______________________________________________ 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.
