[R] update of a function

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:53 PM, carol white <wht_crl at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Don't you use package.skeleton to add functions or data to an existing package? Othewise, what is the safer way?

You can use prompt() to create the outline of the documentation page.
I would just copy the file containing a function's source into the R
directory of the package.

Data is a little more complicated, because there are lots of different
possible formats for it.  What format is your data originally?

Duncan Murdoch

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> You should never have to run package.skeleton more than once per package, and it could be harmful to do so, because you are expected to make changes to the skeleton after it is created before you have a finished package.  package.skeleton() could make you lose those changes.
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> Duncan Murdoch
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