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[Orgmode] Re: [babel] Writing R-packages the org way?


From: Dan Davison
Subject: [Orgmode] Re: [babel] Writing R-packages the org way?
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:03:45 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Erik Iverson <address@hidden> writes:

> Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am about to write an R package, and as I am an org-mode and
>> org-babel user, I would (obviously) like to use org-mode for that.
>>
>> Is there a recommended way of writing an R package in org-babel, or
>> do I have effectively wrap the R code for the documentation
>> etc. into source blocks in babel?
>
> That's what I do.  I've looked into converting an org-file to
> Roxygen or Rd markup, but never got very far.  My idea at the time
> was to do something like:
>
> * function1
> ** Help
> *** Title
>     this is function 1 title
> *** Description
>     function1 does this...
> *** Usage
>     function1(arg1, arg2, ...)
> *** Arguments
>     arg1: the first argument
> *** Examples
>     function1(arg1 = x, arg2 = y)
> **Definition
>     begin_src R :tangle R/package.R
>     function1 <- function(arg1, arg2) {
>
>     }
>
>
>>
>> Any suggestions how to best proceed?
>>
>> Dream: I would like to have one org file which contains everything
>> (documentation, code, other relevant files) and if I export or
>> tangle the file, I have the package ready.
>
> Well, that functionality is essentially present with code blocks
> and tangling, except the documentation part.

Hi Erik,

Would you mind expanding on that -- what are we missing for the
documentation part?

Dan



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