R help - Nov 2010 - Go (back) from Rd to roxygen

Hi all,

Since roxygen is a great help to document R packages, I am wondering
if there exists an approach to go back from the raw Rd files to
roxygen-documentation? E.g. turn "\author{Somebody}" into
"@author
Somebody". This sounds ridiculous, but I believe it helps in the long
term for me to maintain R packages.

Thanks!

Regards,
Yihui
--
Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA

On 25/11/2010 3:45 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Since roxygen is a great help to document R packages, I am wondering
> if there exists an approach to go back from the raw Rd files to
> roxygen-documentation? E.g. turn "\author{Somebody}" into
"@author
> Somebody". This sounds ridiculous, but I believe it helps in the long
> term for me to maintain R packages.
I have no idea, but it should be reasonably straightforward to write 
such a thing, since there's an Rd parser in the tools package.  Take a 
look at Rd2txt or one of the other converters that works on parsed Rd 
code, and write Rd2roxygen.

Duncan Murdoch

> Since roxygen is a great help to document R packages, I am wondering
> if there exists an approach to go back from the raw Rd files to
> roxygen-documentation? E.g. turn "\author{Somebody}" into
"@author
> Somebody". This sounds ridiculous, but I believe it helps in the long
> term for me to maintain R packages.
Have a look at https://gist.github.com/d1bbd44894a99a2e1d1b for a start.

Hadley

-- 
Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of Statistics / Rice University
http://had.co.nz/

Awesome! Thanks a lot!

Regards,
Yihui
--
Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA



On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Hadley Wickham <hadley at rice.edu>
wrote:
>> Since roxygen is a great help to document R packages, I am wondering
>> if there exists an approach to go back from the raw Rd files to
>> roxygen-documentation? E.g. turn "\author{Somebody}" into
"@author
>> Somebody". This sounds ridiculous, but I believe it helps in the
long
>> term for me to maintain R packages.
>
> Have a look at https://gist.github.com/d1bbd44894a99a2e1d1b for a start.
>
> Hadley
>
> --
> Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
> Department of Statistics / Rice University
> http://had.co.nz/
>