>>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>> on Mon, 4 Sep 2023 04:51:32 -0400 writes:
> On 03/09/2023 10:47 p.m., Jeff Newmiller wrote:
>> Leonard... the reason roxygen exists is to allow markup
>> in source files to be used to automatically generate the
>> numerous files required by standard R packages as
>> documented in Writing R Extensions.
>>
>> If your goal is to not use source files this way then the
>> solution is to not use roxygen at all. Just create those
>> files yourself by directly editing them from scratch.
> Just a bit of elaboration on Jeff's suggestion -- here's
> the workflow I prefer to using Roxygen.
> Once you have a function that works:
> 1. install the package 2. set your working directory
> to the package "man" directory 3. run
> `prompt(functionname)` 4. edit `functionname.Rd` in the
> "man" directory, which will already be filled in as a
> skeleton help file, with comments describing what else
> to add.
> Don't run prompt() again after editing, or you'll lose
> all your edits. But this is a good way to get started.
> I think for the first few times the comments are really
> helpful, but I wouldn't mind a way to suppress them.
> Duncan Murdoch
Me neither. A new option, not changing the default, would make sense.
Martin
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