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-Original Message-
From: Simon Urbanek
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 4:10 PM
Ross,
R CMD build is the only offical way to build a (source) package in R.
All other "tools" are just convenience wrappers []
Please note that CRAN
-Original Message-
From: Duncan Murdoch
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 3:30 PM
To: Boylan, Ross ; r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] different build tools
On 2024-05-28 6:20 p.m., Boylan, Ross via R-package-devel wrote:
> There are at least 4 ways to build a pack
There are at least 4 ways to build a package:
1. R CMD build
2. pkgbuild::build(), which I believe calls 1.
3. devtools::build(), which calls 2.
4. RStudio GUI, which calls 3.
I recently discovered these don't all behave the same. Invoking bootstrap.R at
the start
requires 2 or g
cated
way to get the core pdf copied to inst/doc.
Also, my main concern was how to automate production of the "core" pdf, using
the language of the blog post.
Ross
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 2:15 PM
To: Boylan,
I have some documentation that requires external tools to build. I would like
to build the automatically, with requiring either users or repositories to have
the tools. What's the best way to accomplish that.
Specifically one document is written using the LyX word processor, so the
"source" i
: Duncan Murdoch
Cc: Enrico Schumann; Boylan, Ross; r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] relation between vignettes and help files
..
It is even worse, isn't it: Nowadays html help pages are (almost)
always created *dynamically* via R's help() or help.start();
For m
I have two questions, one substantive and one technical, about the relation
between vignettes and help files. By "help files" I mean the regular .Rd files.
Substantively, to what extent should material be duplicated between the help
files and the vignette? For example, my vignette includes som
I keeping getting the error in the subject when I try to install a package from
source on Windows 7.
When using the same code outside of a package there is no problem; the cmprsk
package is installed and its dll is present (in both the x64 and i386
directories).
Our package is attempting to cal
I am trying to update a package from 2010 to the new standards, including
adding a NAMESPACE file. The package has S4 classes, and I'm having some
trouble interpreting the manual.
Suppose I have
setClass("MyClass", .)
MyClass <- function(a, b, c) {...} # constructor
and various methods fo
