Sorry - forgot to cc the list > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Rainer Krug <rai...@krugs.de> > Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Re-creating vignettes after update of data or > different mechanism to create reports? > Date: 11 May 2017 at 14:41:03 GMT+2 > To: Holger Hoefling <hhoef...@gmail.com> > > >> On 11 May 2017, at 14:35, Holger Hoefling <hhoef...@gmail.com >> <mailto:hhoef...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi Rainer, >> >> could you elaborate a little more on why you split this into two packages in >> the first place? If you all kept it in one, you would have to update this >> package regularly - but rebuilding the vignette would not be a problem. >> >> As you designed it with 2 packages - you also have to update the data >> package regularly. >> >> I guess I just don't understand what you gain by splitting the packages. > > I am aware that I wouldn’t have this problem with a single package, but there > are some reasons why I would like to keep them separate (see below): > > 1) The dataset will be huge. So combining it with the analysis package is not > a good idea in case that the analysis package needs to be updated and the > data package stays the same. > > 2) I like the separation between data package and analysis package - it is > cleaner > > 3) The data is not (but will hopefully be sometime later) public. So we can > have two versions of the data package: one for internal usage, and one witch > dummy data which can be made publicly available, as we want to make the code > of the analysis public. > > Hope this explains why I want to keep them separate, > > Rainer > >> >> Best >> >> Holger >> >> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Rainer Krug <rai...@krugs.de >> <mailto:rai...@krugs.de>> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I am building two packages: >> >> - a data package which contains the data and function to extract it (several >> datasets, linked, like an sql database) and >> - an analysis package which contains functions to analyse the data in the >> data package and depends on the data package. >> >> The data package is updated often as the data is updated regularly, while >> the analysis package will (hopefully) be more static. >> >> Now I created a report which I put in the vignette of the analysis package, >> which works nicely and the report is created when the analysis package is >> installed, but when the data package is updated, the user has to re-install >> the analysis package to re-create the report (vignette) of the updated >> dataset. >> >> I know that I am abusing the vignette, but it works nicely. >> >> My question: Is there a way of re-creating the vignette by a user after >> they installed a newer version of the data package, or is there a better way >> of creating the report(s)? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Rainer >> >> -- >> Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, >> UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) >> >> University of Zürich >> >> Cell: +41 (0)78 630 66 57 <tel:%2B41%20%280%2978%20630%2066%2057> >> >> Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 >> <tel:%2B49%20-%20%280%293%2021%2021%2025%2022%2044> >> >> email: rai...@krugs.de <mailto:rai...@krugs.de> >> >> Skype: RMkrug >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org <mailto:R-package-devel@r-project.org> mailing >> list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel> >> > > -- > Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, > UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) > > University of Zürich > > Cell: +41 (0)78 630 66 57 > > Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 > > email: rai...@krugs.de <mailto:rai...@krugs.de> > > Skype: RMkrug >
-- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) University of Zürich Cell: +41 (0)78 630 66 57 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
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