Fri, 13 Jun 2014

Introducing pkgKitten: Creating R Packages that purr

A new package pkgKitten is now on CRAN in its infant version 0.1.0.

It does only one thing: create R packages that do not suck. Or at least not as much as those created by the (R default) function package.skeleton() which creates files which the very standard, and very recommended, R CMD check then complains about. That is silly. Because each time R CMD check complains, something bad happens to a kitten somewhere.

So pkgKitten offers a wrapper function kitten() which creates neat little packages which do not upset R CMD check.

A complete little demo is on the pkgKitten webpage which also has pointers to the pkgKitten GitHub repo.

This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.

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