package development

Mathieu Ribatet <mathieu.ribatet <at> epfl.ch> writes:

Dear Terry,

One way to locate which file is wrong - surely not the most brillant 
way! You could do an R script that sources each of your .R files within 
a "for (file in file.names)" loop.
When R will stop, it will indicate which file has a wrong syntax and 
more info.

Yes, I also use this approach, however making use of the  
sourceDir() utility function that you get by
example(source).

I had contemplated on and off, it was worth of making sourceDir() an 
"official" function and had found that I could not reasonably see
the case for it..

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich