Dec 17, 2019 using roxygen for package documentation is generally much easier than composing rd files directly and is highly recommended for new package documentation. The r graphics model does not distinguish graphics objects at the level of the driver interface. They include reusable r functions, the documentation that. The whole package creating process worked without any errors and warnings. You can create one with the r cmd rd2pdf shell command. As you prepare a package for sharing with others, you may want to create a pdf manual, which provides a more userfriendly format for proofreading all the package help files. See the documentation on pandoc online documentation for details on creating custom templates. I am making an r package using devtools and roxygen2. The package uses the latex document class apa6 and a.
Create start a new plot frame graphicsdefunct defunct functions in package graphics graphicspackage the r graphics package grid add grid to a plot hist histograms hist. Writing an r package from scratch not so standard deviations. The r programming language r core team 20 has become one of the most dominant programming languages for data analysis and visualization in recent years. Rd files are saved in the man directory of an r package. You dont actually need to write a r package to get your c code into there, but once youve already fought 710ths of the battle, you might as well complete the whole. Rd or r documentation files when you created your package. You can create a new rd file for an existing function, dataset. Posixt histogram of a date or datetime object identify identify points in a scatter plot image display a color image layout specifying complex plot arrangements legend add. Here is my understanding of how to do it, i create an empty rpackage project on rstudio and then have a source file named getsomething. I am able to create the packag successfully and on load able to use the functions too. Translations of manuals into other languages than english are available from the contributed documentation section only a few translations are available the latex or texinfo sources of the latest version of these documents are contained in every r source distribution in the subdirectory docmanual of the extracted archive. The whole packagecreating process worked without any errors and warnings. The package is installed into the log directory and production of the package pdf manual is tested.
R create reference manual with r cmd check stack overflow. Moreover, papaja supplies rfunctions that facilitate reporting results of your analyses in accordance with apa guidelines. Rpubs how to create an r package for research documentation. Then on the following screen specify the project type as r package. Now, any package can provide a vignette engine, a standard interface for turning input files into html or pdf vignettes. These files use a custom syntax, loosely based on latex, and are rendered to html, plain text and pdf for viewing. Browsable html versions of the manuals, help pages and news for the developing versions of r rpatched and rdevel, updated daily. The package roxygen2 provides a tool for creating documentation from annotated source code much like doxygen, javadoc and docstringspydoc do. Documentation document collections, journals and proceedings. This was challenging because sweave only worked with latex, and latex is both hard to learn and slow to compile. Choose y when asked about using a personal library, and y again if asked to create one. The goal of this book is to teach you how to develop packages so that you can write your own, not just use other peoples.
An extension of the r base system with code, data and documentation in standardized format. Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. Nov 21, 2012 creating the package choose create new project, file new project. If youre releasing the package to a more specific audience, interested either in the data e. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext.
This is a minimum, and will be increased with a warning if necessary. Package pdftools november 10, 2019 type package title text extraction, rendering and converting of pdf documents version 2. Consider different audiences when writing package documentation. The package roxygen2 provides a tool for creating documentation from annotated.
Packages are the fundamental units of reproducible r code. Here is my understanding of how to do it, i create an empty r package project on rstudio and then have a source file named getsomething. Create a sparkdataframe from a sparksql table or view. R processes them to create plain text, pdf, and html versions. I managed to create a package using rstudio and roxygen2. Roxygen also plays a prominent roll in the devtools package, a package developed by hadley wickham of rstudio that makes it easier to build and document r packages. For more details see the documentation on r markdown metadata. Anyway, my question is how do i create a pdf documentation of my package and its functions. A comprehensive index of r packages and documentation from cran, bioconductor, github and r forge. Add documentation this always seemed like the most intimidating step to me. In addition to the manuals, faqs, the r journal and its predecessor r news, the following sites may be of interest to r users.
I am trying to add documentation via roxygen2 in a package. The pdf produced is fairly simple, with each page being represented as a single stream by default compressed and possibly with references to raster images. The revoscaler library is a collection of portable, scalable, and distributable r functions for importing, transforming, and analyzing data at scale. The quality of documentation for an r package can determine success or failure. The package roxygen2 that makes everything amazing and simple. I use the following directoryfile structure in my package. A comprehensive index of r packages and documentation from cran, bioconductor, github and rforge. Many aspects of the latex template used to create pdf documents can be customized using metadata.
Instead of writing these files by hand, were going to use roxygen2 which turns specially formatted comments into. Thanks for contributing an answer to stack overflow. Less documentation generally results in higher burdens, so its best add extensive documentation as early as possible. Documentation is also useful for futureyou so you remember what your functions were supposed to do, and for developers extending your package. If you are using github, the easiest way to make this your package website is to check into git, then go to settings for your repo and make sure that the github pages source is set to master branch docs folder. This tutorial is meant as a starting point on how to create an r package, see r development core team 2008b for the full reference manual. You can read more about the rd format in the r extensions manual. To add documentation to an r package, you need to create a subdirectory man containing a set of files, one per function, in a special r documentation format. In case you want to save larger maps produced with mapview i.
Before we start creating r packages we have to clarify some terms which sometimes get confused. Now, any package can provide a vignette engine, a standard interface for. Documentation is one of the most important aspects of a good package. In this directory you could find the file packagemanual. Note that if you have existing r scripts that youd like to use as the basis for the new package you can specify them here and. To use this, open a shell and navigate to the parent directory of your r package directory an easy way to do this.
Making an r package pdf manual using devtools stack overflow. Apr 24, 2020 if you are using github, the easiest way to make this your package website is to check into git, then go to settings for your repo and make sure that the github pages source is set to master branch docs folder. You can use it for descriptive statistics, generalized linear models, kmeans clustering, logistic regression, classification. Even beyond this course, you may nd this useful for storing functions you create for your own research or for editing existing r packages to suit. Instructions for creating your own r package in song kimy phil martinz nina mcmurryx andy haltermanmarch 18, 2018 1 introduction the following is a stepbystep guide to creating your own r package. R package, show how to document the code properly and nally discuss the tools for package validation and distribution. A package in r is simply a reusable r functions with standard and selfexplanatory documentation on how to use it. These will be the source for the documentation for each function. To add documentation to an r package, you need to create a subdirectory man. And r is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, used by people like me. A variety of diagnostic checks on directory structure, index and control files are performed. You can find more information on the markdown syntax for citations in the bibliographies and citations article in the online documentation.
Be sure to update the url on your github repository homepage so others can easily navigate to your new site. Create start a new plot frame graphicsdefunct defunct functions in package graphics graphics package the r graphics package grid add grid to a plot hist histograms hist. Using roxygen for package documentation is generally much easier than composing rd files directly and is highly recommended for new package documentation. I find package vignettes useful because they can be access directly from r via vignette, and thus also be linked in other documentation. Without it, users wont know how to use your package. Return a vector of names of packages loaded by devtools. They include reusable r functions, the documentation that describes how to use them, and sample data. Take the first num rows of a sparkdataframe and return the results as a r ame. Check r packages from package sources, which can be directories or package tar archives with extension.