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.