library("R.utils");
sourceDirectory("myRFiles/", modifiedOnly=TRUE);See ?sourceDirectory (regardless what the Rd help say, any '...' argument is passed to sourceTo()). /Henrik On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Hao Cen <h...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder what is a better way to organize a lot of R source files. I have > a lot of utility functions written and store them in several source files > (e.g util1.R, util2.R,..utilN.R). I also have a master file in which the > source command is used to load all the util.R files. When I need to use > the utility functions in a new project, I create a new R file (e.g main.R) > in which I "source" the master file. > > The problem with this approach is that anytime a single utility function > is modified, I need to rerun the source command in main.R to load the > master file, which loads all the utility R files via a loop over each > file. Sometimes I have to wait for 10 seconds to get them all loaded. > Sometimes I forget to run the source command. Is there a way in R to 1) > only reload the file changed (like a make utility) when I run source on > all utility files and/or even better 2) reload the changed utility files, > when I run a command that use one of those utility functions, without the > need for me to source those files. > > Not sure if packaging solves this issue because the library command has be > used every time a utility function is modified and in addition the package > has to be rebuilt. I don't worry about sharing the source files at this > moment as I am the only user of those utility files. > > This may be a common issue many R users face. I wonder how other R users > solve this issue. > > thanks > > Jeff > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
