All, I just finished the process of build a package for the first time and found it characteristically (for R) very straightforward and well documented.
Whenever I deal with open source software I always endeavor to finish the task I have in mind, and upon completing this, I then revisit all of the configurations, customizing as necessary to achieve my goals more fully. The ability to achieve some minimal level of functionality without the need for much filling in of configuration files, etc., is, I feel, important to not scaring off the less technically inclined such as myself. Based on this heuristic, it is my understanding that a few small suggestions could make building a warning-free package as easy as running package.skeleton(), then R CMD check, R CMD build: - Fill in default titles for each of the '*.Rd' files in /man - Take out the tildes in the 'examples' section of the '*-package.Rd' main documentation file for the package (it seems to confuse the latex compiler) - Put the lines '~~ Optionally other standard keywords, one per line, from file KEYWORDS in ~~ ~~ the R documentation directory ~~' into the \references{} section, there is presently a warning about all text needing to be in a section. Thanks, as always, to everyone for their hard work to keep my statistical computing free and easy. Best, Kyle [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel