On 04/10/2015 7:34 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: > Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> >> On 04/10/2015 10:10 AM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote: >>> Folks: >>> > > [snip snip snip] > >>> >>> Is there a way to do a conditional importFrom based on the OS? Or can I >>> safely ignore this (I'm trying to submit to CRAN). >>> >> >> Yes, you can put conditionals into the NAMESPACE file. Apparently >> roxygen2 doesn't support this feature, so you'll have to do it by hand. >> >> Duncan Murdoch >> >> > > This has been submitted as an issue at > > https://github.com/klutometis/roxygen/issues/378 > > closely related: > > https://github.com/klutometis/roxygen/issues/371 > > my current hacky solution to this is to use a Makefile that > post-processes the NAMESPACE after it's roxygenized, e.g. search > for "getRversion" in > > https://github.com/glmmTMB/glmmTMB/blob/master/Makefile
Hadley has the right idea (allow roxygen to specify some uninterpreted text to drop into the NAMESPACE file), but it doesn't go far enough. Really this is a design flaw in roxygen: being able to enter NAMESPACE and help page info in source files is a great feature, but being forced to go all or nothing is a flaw. If base R adds something new to the NAMESPACE or .Rd files (or has some obscure feature that roxygen authors didn't notice), it's really hard for roxygen users to make use of it. A better design would be to allow content from both sources: some manually entered NAMESPACE stuff, and some automatically generated stuff. A really nice design would be to read the manually entered stuff and show (some of?) it in the .R files, but that would be really tricky to get right. I think it would need to be supported by a GUI, it wouldn't be reasonable to expect people to type it all properly in a dumb editor. Maybe Hadley knows someone who has written a GUI? Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
