Hello,
This is to announce the first release of the "ant" R package, which
has
been pushed to CRAN yesterday, and should reach your mirror and your
platform soon.
The package provides an R-aware version of the famous build tool from
the apache project. http://ant.apache.org/
The package ships an R script that can be used to invoke ant with enough
plumbing so that it can use R specific tasks within targets.
$ Rscript -e "ant::ant()"
The package contains two R specific tasks:
- <r-run> that can be used to run arbitrary R code.
- <r-set> that can be used to set a property based on the result of an R
expression.
An demonstrative build file is included within the package to further
illustrate the two tasks. Also available at my blog (http://tr.im/xMdt)
R> system.file( "examples", "build.xml", package =
"ant" )
The package is source-controlled at r-forge as part of the orchestra
project. http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/orchestra/
Many thanks to Duncan Murdoch who suggested adding the "ant" function
as
a shortcut to invoke the script and Simon Urbanek who revealed to me the
existence of the configure script.
This is a very first release, so feedback and ideas for additional
features or tasks is very welcome.
Romain
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