>>>>> Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]>
>>>>> on Sun, 14 Apr 2013 06:51:38 -0500 writes:
> On 14 April 2013 at 14:10, Renaud Gaujoux wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | I know this has been reported/asked before (
> | http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e15/devel/11/10/0831.html) but it
would
> | still be just nice to have a fix for the not user-friendly fact that one
> | cannot create a completely empty package skeleton (see previous post
for a
> | suggested patch).
> |
> | In the same vein, I would add to the original suggestion from Herve
Pages
> | that it would be nice to have a quick way to create an empty package
> | skeleton, skipping all objects possibly defined in .GlobalEnv, e.g.
> | "package.skeleton('pkg', NA)", although I believe Herve's patch would
> | automatically allow/handle a call like "package.skeleton('pkg',
> | character())".
> |
> | Conclusion, nothing urgent, which could be done in 1min spare time, but
> | could save 1min to many friendly future package developers :)
> I am also willing to help here as I do not like the fact that the
generated
> Rd file itself is broken. A hint from R Core that clean patches would be
> taken would be welcomed...
yes, such patches to package.skeleton would be welcomed.
I think we had never thought to make package.skeleton() into a
basic, fully-logic, high-standard, ..da-da-da..,.... R function
but rather as a simple way to get beginning package writers
started.
But I have found (in teaching) as well the need for more
"logical" behavior of package.skeleton().
Martin
> [ And I often call package.skeleton() from a fresh session, that is pretty
> close to creating an empty package. ]
> Dirk
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