R help - Apr 2015 - package.skeleton warning

So I finally used 
filenames <- list.files("~/Desktop/myPkg/R/", full.names = TRUE)
package.skeleton(name = "myPackage", code_files = filenames) 
and still despite the warnings mentioned before, the man and R folders seem to
have been created correctly. I had put the vignettes folder and inst in the
source folder (~/Desktop/myPkg) at the same level as R folder. inst contains
citation. but after invoking package.skeleton, nothing happened to copy the
vignettes nor inst folders in the myPackage folder. Should package.skeleton have
taken care of them or I should process separately?
Thanks
?


     On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 5:22 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at
gmail.com> wrote:
   

 On 28/04/2015 11:09 AM, carol white wrote:
> I have many code files so listing them will be long. When leave it
> empty, I get
> 
> package.skeleton(name = "myPackage", code_files = "")
> Error in sys.source(cf, envir = environment) : '' is not an
existing file
Sorry, I meant "leave it out", i.e. just use
package.skeleton(name="myPackage").? This will look at the objects
that
are currently defined in your workspace and base your package on those.

But if you have your code already in a bunch of files in
~/Desktop/myPkg/R/, you could use

filenames <- list.files("~/Desktop/myPkg/R/", full.names = TRUE)

to get all the names in one vector, and use that as the code_files
argument, i.e.

package.skeleton(name = "myPackage", code_files = filenames)

You may need to leave out some files if they aren't all *.R files.

Duncan Murdoch
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 4:48 PM, Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 28/04/2015 10:05 AM, carol white via R-help wrote:
>>? Hi,Why do I get this warning when I run package.skeleton() and how to
> solve this problem?
>> Warning messages:
>> 1: In package.skeleton(name = "myPackage", code_files >
"~/Desktop/myPkg/R/") :
>>? ? Invalid file name(s) for R code in ./myPackage/R:
>>? ? 'R'
>>? are now renamed to 'z<name>.R'
>> 2: In file.rename(from = file.path(code_dir, wrong), to >
file.path(code_dir,? :
>>? ? cannot rename file './myPackage/R/R' to
'./myPackage/R/zR.R',
> reason 'No such file or directory'
>>
> 
> You are saying that your code is in a file called
> 
> 
> "~/Desktop/myPkg/R/"
> 
> 
> but you have no such file.? If you really do have your code already in
> some files, list them in the code_files argument, otherwise leave it blank.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> 
> 
> 


  
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On 29/04/2015 3:49 AM, carol white wrote:
> So I finally used
> filenames <- list.files("~/Desktop/myPkg/R/", full.names =
TRUE)
> package.skeleton(name = "myPackage", code_files = filenames)
> 
> and still despite the warnings mentioned before, the man and R folders
> seem to have been created correctly. I had put the vignettes folder and
> inst in the source folder (~/Desktop/myPkg) at the same level as R
> folder. inst contains citation. but after invoking package.skeleton,
> nothing happened to copy the vignettes nor inst folders in the myPackage
> folder. Should package.skeleton have taken care of them or I should
> process separately?
> 
It sounds as though myPkg is already a complete package, so you probably
shouldn't be using package.skeleton at all.  It's for starting out, not
for modifying an existing package.

So in answer to your question:  package.skeleton won't do anything with
your inst or vignette directories.  You'll need to copy those into the
new package yourself.

Duncan Murdoch