Thanks to everyone for writing. A well-known phenomenon in mathematics, statistics and/or complex computing is that everything one already knows feels trivial and easy. It's as though one is permanently climbing a vertical cliff-face, while, if you look back from where you've come, you see a level plateau just a couple of inches lower than one's boots. I take statements about how easy it is to make packages with a pinch of salt---I'm sure it's easy when you already know how.
I've been looking through http://127.0.0.1:31257/doc/manual/R-exts.html#Creating-R-packages http://127.0.0.1:31257/doc/manual/R-exts.html#Creating-R-packages with a mixture of bafflement and horror. Even to skim this document without understanding all that much of it would take me a couple of hours. To make my first package might take me a couple of days, or maybe longer. To follow David Scott's suggestion would take me 5 minutes max. And I have a huge workload with looming deadlines .... It might be different if there were a "Dummies' guide to packages", allowing one to rapidly assemble a a few easy functions, and omitting all the optional features---a guide to the first steps up the cliff-face. If there is a Dummies' guide, I would be glad to hear of it. David -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Storing-user-defined-R-functions-tp3402983p3404751.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.