R devel - Oct 2002 - Building and installing packages with functions with names starting with (PR#2229)

Dear Coreteam,

 I am getting closer to have some R-packages with interface to CoCo.
 I use something like package.skeleton("CoCo", list = ls(all.names
 = TRUE)) to also get my functions beginning with "." into the
package.
 Functions with names starting with "." are put OK into the package
 during "R CMD build ...",  but when R at "R INSTALL - d
..." collects
 the R-files into the single file for putting into .../R the functions
 with names starting with "." are omitted ?!?

 Regards,

 Jens Henrik



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You have omitted the details of your system, but I'll guess Unix.

The names of R functions are nothing to do with the file names.  Don't
use dotnames for files containing R functions: some OSes do really strange
things with them.  Maybe package.skeleton() should remap the names, but
if not you will need to do it yourself.

On Unix R INSTALL does omit dotnames.  On some Windows systems using Samba
they become hidden.  Just avoid them.


On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 JensHenrik.Badsberg@agrsci.dk wrote:
>
>  Dear Coreteam,
>
>  I am getting closer to have some R-packages with interface to CoCo.
>  I use something like package.skeleton("CoCo", list =
ls(all.names
>  = TRUE)) to also get my functions beginning with "." into the
package.
>  Functions with names starting with "." are put OK into the
package
>  during "R CMD build ...",  but when R at "R INSTALL - d
..." collects
>  the R-files into the single file for putting into .../R the functions
>  with names starting with "." are omitted ?!?
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>>>>> JensHenrik Badsberg writes:
>  Dear Coreteam,
>  I am getting closer to have some R-packages with interface to CoCo.
>  I use something like package.skeleton("CoCo", list =
ls(all.names
>  = TRUE)) to also get my functions beginning with "." into the
package.
>  Functions with names starting with "." are put OK into the
package
>  during "R CMD build ...",  but when R at "R INSTALL - d
..." collects
>  the R-files into the single file for putting into .../R the functions
>  with names starting with "." are omitted ?!?
R CMD INSTALL behaves according to what is documented in R-exts:

	   The `R' subdirectory contains R code files.  The code files
	to be installed must start with a (lower or upper case) letter
	and have one of the extensions `.R', `.S', `.q', `.r', or
`.s'.

So I believe the code in package.skeleton() which has

    cat("Saving functions and data\n")
    for (item in list) {
        if (is.function(get(item))) 
            dump(item, file = file.path(path, name, "R", paste(item, 
                "R", sep = ".")))
        else save(list = item, file = file.path(path, name, "data", 
            paste(item, "rda", sep = ".")))
    }

Also, I personally do not believe that non-functions in the environment
that is dumped out should by default be made into data sets.

-k
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