>> There is package.skeleton() in base R as you already mentioned. It drove >> me >> bonkers that it creates packages which then fail R CMD check, so I wrote a >> wrapper package (pkgKitten) with another helper function (kitten()) which >> calls the base R helper and then cleans up it---but otherwise remains >> faithful to it. > > > Failing R CMD check isn't a big deal: you want to be reminded to edit those > incomplete help files. But I think I recall that you couldn't even build > the package that package.skeleton() created, and that indeed would be > irritating, especially if you had a lot of functions so you had a lot of > cleanup to do. I don't know if that's still true because I generally use > RStudio to create the initial package structure rather than calling > package.skeleton myself.
Personally, I think the biggest problem with package.skeleton() is that it assumes that the source of truth is objects in an environment. This seems the wrong way around to me. Hadley -- http://hadley.nz ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
