On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 12:00 +0100, r-devel-requ...@r-project.org wrote: > How are the package authors supposed to develop their own NAMESPACEd > packages efficiently? And what are the directions R is taking in order > to > facilitate the development cycle? >
This is my strategy. I have a separate directory "test.local" in my tree, not exported to Rforge. It has a Makefile which loads all the sources from ../R, copies the C files from ../src and makes a local loadable S.so. I then do all my development there, without a name space. I can overwrite functions, trace, add browser() calls --- all the things you want to do --- with standard semantics. I obviously don't "load" my package. I think this is the simplest route. Namespaces are a great idea, but during testing I don't want all those protections. It took me a half hour to set up the Makefile; I've recouped that effort many times over. Terry Therneau ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
