R help - Jul 2016 - a package-building opinion question, please

Hello everyone:

I'm starting to write a package from scratch; having done that in ages.

My opinion question:  what is the best way, please:  Should I use R studio,
please?  Back in the back, I used package.skeleton, or just copied over
other people's stuff.  But I want to do a nice clean one from the beginning.

For the record, I will have S4 classes.

And I'm sure I will get many differing answering, but that's good too!

Sort of like those "if you put 1000 statisticians end to end" jokes.

Thanks in advance,
Have a great weekend,
Sincerely,
Erin


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Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematical and Statistics
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com

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Hi Erin:

Everyone's tastes differ,  but when I started out knowing nothing about
packages,  I found Hadley's guide  (thank you Hadley!!!) indispensable:

     http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/intro.html


For obvious reasons, his guide really is geared to built-in features of RStudio,
though I believe you could do the same things without it.  It is just easier to
do the steps he describes from within RStudio.

HTH,

-Roy

> On Jul 8, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess at
gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone:
> 
> I'm starting to write a package from scratch; having done that in ages.
> 
> My opinion question:  what is the best way, please:  Should I use R studio,
> please?  Back in the back, I used package.skeleton, or just copied over
> other people's stuff.  But I want to do a nice clean one from the
beginning.
> 
> For the record, I will have S4 classes.
> 
> And I'm sure I will get many differing answering, but that's good
too!
> 
> Sort of like those "if you put 1000 statisticians end to end"
jokes.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Have a great weekend,
> Sincerely,
> Erin
> 
> 
> -- 
> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Mathematical and Statistics
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
> 
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I would suggest Hadley's guide as Roy. Life is easier by shortcuts that
RStudio has. Especially in package development stage. You can run your test by
<cmd + Shit + T> or build your package by <cmd + shift + B> on the
go. When it comes to package development, these are life saving.
> On 08 Jul 2016, at 22:05, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal
<roy.mendelssohn at noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
> Hi Erin:
> 
> Everyone's tastes differ,  but when I started out knowing nothing about
packages,  I found Hadley's guide  (thank you Hadley!!!) indispensable:
> 
>     http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/intro.html
> 
> 
> For obvious reasons, his guide really is geared to built-in features of
RStudio, though I believe you could do the same things without it.  It is just
easier to do the steps he describes from within RStudio.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> -Roy
>