[Rd] [Wishlist] a 'PackageDevelopment' Task View

[Luca Braglia]

2014-07-25 14:29 GMT+02:00 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>:
> On 25/07/2014 8:05 AM, Luca Braglia wrote:
>>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> as a young/unexperienced R package developer (only a few, mainly
>> for personal use) i was thinking it could be very useful having a
>> "meta" task view for all package-development related
>> packages and/or function.
>>
>> Something like ...
>>
>> Creation
>> - utils::package.skeleton, pkgKitten, Rcpp::Rcpp.package.skeleton
>>
>> Foreign languages interfaces:
>> - Rcpp
>>
>> Documentation
>> - roxygen2
>>
>> Profiling:
>> - utils::Rprof
>> - profr
>> - proftools
>>
>> Unit test
>> - RUnit
>> - testthat
>>
>> Spell checking
>> - tools::aspell_package_* functions
>>
>> "Misc":
>> - devtools
>>
>> and so on.
>>
>> These are only the ones i (use or know) & (remember), but for
>> sure there is already a lot of useful code in this area and
>> having a summary (by more experienced developers) of which good
>> tools are available would be *very* useful, IMHO.
>>
>> How about it?
>
>
> Sounds like a good idea.  You should do it.
>
> Download the "ctv" package, and read the vignette for instructions.
>
> Duncan Murdoch

Fine, I've set up a github repo here

https://github.com/lbraglia/PackageDevelopmentTaskView

and a first thread about task view structure here

https://github.com/lbraglia/PackageDevelopmentTaskView/issues/1

Contribution (via e-mail or github) are, of course, really welcome.

Cheers, Luca