On 16/09/2008 8:12 AM, KarstenW wrote:
Hello,
for my small project I would like to organize the data, functions and
documentation as a package.
I have already created a skeleton directory structure with DESCRIPTION file
and put some files in the R, man and data subdirectories.
Now I would like to work on the package without calling R CMD build/install
after each change. In fact, I do not have the build tools installed yet (I
am on Windows) and hope to get along without them (using r-forge).
Currently, I do not plan to use C or Fortran extensions.
But when I run in the R (2.7.2) console
library(mypkg, lib.loc="mypath")
the system answers that there is no package named 'mypkg'.
Is it possible to use the package infrastructure without calling R CMD ...
after each change?
The install.packages() function can call the script for you, but it's a
little tricky, because it might fail if you have the package loaded. It
would be nice if there were a reinstall.packages() function that could
reliably unload a package before calling install.packages, but currently
there isn't.
Duncan Murdoch
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