[Rd] advice on writing/maintaining an R package with a version control system

2010-09-16 Thread Vinh Nguyen
Dear all, As I resume my dissertation work next month, I'd like to actually start an R package this time around. I haven't done so because I update my code very often (still in development phase), so running the skeleton function, running checks, building, and re-installing the package onto the

Re: [Rd] advice on writing/maintaining an R package with a version control system

2010-09-16 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Vinh Nguyen wrote: Dear all, As I resume my dissertation work next month, I'd like to actually start an R package this time around. I haven't done so because I update my code very often (still in development phase), so running the skeleton function, running

Re: [Rd] advice on writing/maintaining an R package with a version control system

2010-09-16 Thread Whit Armstrong
Since you are using git you may want to consider a submodule for your project. It is often helpful to build a full library in c++ complete with it's own unit tests. You can then package this library inside of your R project as a submodule. This can speed up the testing phase of the project b/c