On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > > On Jul 6, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: [aggressive trimming] >>> It seems like something a front end could do to make assignInNamespace >>> easier to use to make working with namespaces easier. >> >> Indeed I find this change to be a very welcome addition to R that will >> make the life easier for many of us; especially when you are using >> someone else's package. >> >> My use case is also not debugging my own code when it is a at a >> semi-mature level. I am addressing the very early stages of >> developing a new package. In my workflow (which may differ from other >> people's; but I do think a substantial number would agree with me), >> the early stages of development usually entails bringing order to a >> number of R scripts; figuring out the structure of the basic objects >> as well as the arguments for the important functions/methods. In this >> early stage, almost any evaluation I do at the R prompt is followed by >> refactoring some part of the code (and then sourcing it into R). >> >> Once the code is semi-matured (after the first couple of weeks), I >> don't think I would mind a NAMESPACE at all, but I believe I would >> find it very frustrating during the very early development stage >> (which I am going through right now for one package and which I went >> through a month ago for another package). >> > > .. but in that case it's easier to just source the package code. That allows > much easier and consistent editing as well since you know everything is in > the workspace, so you are not dealing with two sets of code.
And you could also try using Hadley's devtools package: https://github.com/hadley/devtools/ Last I tried to use it, there was some problems with some S4isms (that maybe were my fault(?)) so I switched back to sourcing my development-package-dirs (which is fine until you've got compiled code) -- but maybe the problems I was having with devtools have also been resolved. It could be worth a try. -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
