Markus Loecher <markus.loecher <at> gmail.com> writes: > I read through the "Writing R Extensions" document and am able to now create > my own packages/libraries which so far are just well documented collections > of my own R functions. I use package.skeleton() and the tools package to > build these packages. > However, it is not clear to me how to modify and update a package after its > initial creation. How do you elegantly update e.g. the old help file when > one added an argument to a function ? How do you keep most of the existing > package structure when implementing incremental changes ?
In detail, Tobias is right. In summary: incremental changes must be made by manual updating the files. When I did it the first time, I had no latex background and it reminded me of r(un)off times. After you did it once, it's not that complex though, so bite the bullet. Dieter ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
