Dear Aron, - Set the build tools in RStudio to build a package (via Tools -> Project options -> Build tools) - Use the Build pane to "Build" and then "Check" the package
Best regards, Thierry ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance Kliniekstraat 25 1070 Anderlecht Belgium To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey 2015-02-18 17:12 GMT+01:00 Aron Lindberg <aron.lindb...@case.edu>: > Hi All, > > > In short: what’s a good workflow for forking/rewriting/testing code in > packages? > > > I’m trying to contribute to a package on Github. So I fork it and then > clone my forked repo into my desktop, and then I open the files I want to > edit in RStudio. > > > However, to actually test that the code works, I need to load the package > from the local version on my machine. I think I can do this using: > > > library(rgithub, lib.loc = “/Users/Aron/github/local/rgithub/“) > > > However, this fails: > > > Error in library(rgithub, lib.loc = “/Users/Aron/github/local/“) : > there is no package called ‘rgithub’ > > > Do I need to install the library from the local repo first somehow? How do > I do this? > > > If I got it to work I assume I would be able to run > > > sessionInfo() > > > Which would then enable me to see which version of the package is loaded. > However, the version number would be the same as the package that I can > install using devtools, e.g. devtools::install_github(“cscheid/rgithub”. > How can I check whether I have loaded my local development copy or the > “official” copy that I also have on my machine? > > > In short: what’s a good workflow for forking/rewriting/testing code in > packages? > > > Best, > Aron > > > -- > Aron Lindberg > > > Doctoral Candidate, Information Systems > Weatherhead School of Management > Case Western Reserve University > aronlindberg.github.io > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
