[Rd] Best practices in developing package: From a single file

[Joris Meys]

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 1:29 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 31/01/2018 6:59 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
>> On 30/01/2018 11:39 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>>
>  [ lots deleted ]
>
>> Personally, I don't find writing in comments any harder than writing
>>> in .Rd files, especially now that you can write in markdown and have
>>> it automatically translated to Rd formatting commands.
>>>
>>
>> I didn't know about the possibility of Markdown.  That's a good thing.
>> You didn't say what editor you use, but RStudio is a good guess, and it
>> also makes it easier to write in comments.
>>
>
> I've taken a look at the Markdown support, and I think that is fantastic.
> I'd rather it wasn't inline in the .R file (does it have to be?), but I'd
> say it tips the balance, and I'll certainly experiment with using that for
> new projects.
>

You don't have to put the Rmarkdown in the .R file of the function, there
are ways to keep them in separate files. But keeping them in the same file
does make it easier for Rmarkdown to eg generate the correct usage section
and use the correct Rd makeup etc. At least that's my understanding of it.
Hadley will hopefully correct me if I'm wrong.  I haven't checked all the
options and possibilities yet in the latest iterations of the package.

Cheers
Joris

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