Re: [Rd] [Wishlist] a 'PackageDevelopment' Task View

2014-07-29 Thread Luca Braglia
On 27/07/14 - 13:19, Darren Norris wrote: > including packages like sos seems justified and helpful. Thanks Darren and John, considering both the programmer and the user point of view, being a bit less strict about inclusion criteria in this case (search) may be definitely helpful. Best, Luca

Re: [Rd] [Wishlist] a 'PackageDevelopment' Task View

2014-07-27 Thread Darren Norris
Hi Luca, Based on previous comments seems like 1) there should be a "multi-functional"/"general" category to cover packages like devtools 2) I think finding existing function code ( e.g in cran packages / github ) is necessary and saves many hours in package development (no one wants to develop a p

Re: [Rd] [Wishlist] a 'PackageDevelopment' Task View

2014-07-27 Thread Luca Braglia
On 27/07/14 - 10:07, Spencer Graves wrote: > Regarding "finding which packages are available", I didn't see the sos > package on the list: Many packages are still missing (eg devtools) because in these first steps i'm trying to focus mainly on the Task View TOC/structure (and in the case,

Re: [Rd] [Wishlist] a 'PackageDevelopment' Task View

2014-07-27 Thread Spencer Graves
On 7/27/2014 9:23 AM, Luca Braglia wrote: On 27/07/14 - 08:42, Spencer Graves wrote: On 7/27/2014 7:46 AM, Luca Braglia wrote: I'm starting to think I'd like to keep the "Source Code" section separated from the "Documentation" section ... eg ideally the macro topics could be in this order 1

Re: [Rd] [Wishlist] a 'PackageDevelopment' Task View

2014-07-27 Thread Luca Braglia
On 27/07/14 - 08:42, Spencer Graves wrote: > On 7/27/2014 7:46 AM, Luca Braglia wrote: > >I'm starting to think I'd like to keep the "Source Code" section > >separated from the "Documentation" section ... eg ideally the > >macro topics could be in this order > > > >1 - Creation > >2 - Source Code

Re: [Rd] [Wishlist] a 'PackageDevelopment' Task View

2014-07-27 Thread Spencer Graves
On 7/27/2014 7:46 AM, Luca Braglia wrote: On 27/07/14 - 09:33, Christophe Dutang wrote: Hi Luca, Let me suggest to follow the table of contents of http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html For example, you could use the following TOC: 1 - Creating R pkg 2 - Writing documen

Re: [Rd] [Wishlist] a 'PackageDevelopment' Task View

2014-07-27 Thread Luca Braglia
On 27/07/14 - 09:33, Christophe Dutang wrote: > Hi Luca, > > Let me suggest to follow the table of contents of > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html > > For example, you could use the following TOC: > > 1 - Creating R pkg > 2 - Writing documentation and vignettes > 3 -

Re: [Rd] [Wishlist] a 'PackageDevelopment' Task View

2014-07-27 Thread Christophe Dutang
Hi Luca, Let me suggest to follow the table of contents of http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html For example, you could use the following TOC: 1 - Creating R pkg 2 - Writing documentation and vignettes 3 - Profiling code 4 - Debugging, spell checking 5 - Foreign languages

Re: [Rd] [Wishlist] a 'PackageDevelopment' Task View

2014-07-26 Thread Luca Braglia
2014-07-25 14:29 GMT+02:00 Duncan Murdoch : > On 25/07/2014 8:05 AM, Luca Braglia wrote: >> >> Hello everybody, >> >> as a young/unexperienced R package developer (only a few, mainly >> for personal use) i was thinking it could be very useful having a >> "meta" task view for all package-development

Re: [Rd] [Wishlist] a 'PackageDevelopment' Task View

2014-07-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 25/07/2014 8:05 AM, Luca Braglia wrote: Hello everybody, as a young/unexperienced R package developer (only a few, mainly for personal use) i was thinking it could be very useful having a "meta" task view for all package-development related packages and/or function. Something like ... Creat

[Rd] [Wishlist] a 'PackageDevelopment' Task View

2014-07-25 Thread Luca Braglia
Hello everybody, as a young/unexperienced R package developer (only a few, mainly for personal use) i was thinking it could be very useful having a "meta" task view for all package-development related packages and/or function. Something like ... Creation - utils::package.skeleton, pkgKitten, Rcp