Makey Makey
I am quite confident using make
to create complex reports.
As I dig into R
I see they have an interesting work flow
creating packages. It addresses a
few important issues - tracking dependent packages,
documenting stuff and testing. Most important packaging and
installing on other systems can be done automatically using
a single command. I want that.
I found Makefiles
mentioned several times included in the
documentation - but so far haven’t figured out how they are
supposed to be used. Eventually I decided to experiment
with an own project
vignetteBuilderMake.
It is not supposed to change anything in the core R package
process however it is intended to build vignettes using
make
while still allowing the nice features of the package
tools.
Feel free to try it out. A word of warning, once I understand the process better I hope I can make a better suited package.