Create a very simple package

Source code

Description

The kitten function creates an (almost) empty example package.

Usage

kitten(name = "anRpackage", path = ".", author, maintainer, email,
  githubuser = NA_character_, license = "GPL (>= 2)", puppy = TRUE,
  bunny = TRUE)

Arguments

name	The name of the package to be created, defaults to “anRpackage”
path	The path to the location where the package is to be created, defaults to the current directory.
author	The name of the author, defaults to the result of fullname (or “Your Name” as fallback).
maintainer	The name of the maintainer, also defaults to fullname or author if the latter is given.
email	The maintainer email address, defaults to email_address (or “your@email.com” as fallback).
githubuser	The maintainer github user, defaults to NA_character\_ implying “URL” and “BugReports” fields are not being set. One can call gh_username outside of continuous integration settings.
license	The license of the new package, defaults to “GPL-2”.
puppy	Toggle whether tinytest::puppy add unit testing, default to true (but conditional on tinytest being installed).
bunny	Toggle whether roxygen2 should be used for the the creation of Rd files from R, default is true (but also conditional on roxygen2 being install).

Details

The kitten function can be used to initialize a simple package. It is created with the minimal number of files. What distinguished it from the function package.skeleton() in base R (which it actually calls) is that the resulting package passes R CMD check cleanly.

Because every time you create a new package which does not pass R CMD check, a kitten experiences an existential trauma. Just think about the kittens.

Value

Nothing is returned as the function is invoked for its side effect of creating a new package.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel