Storing and managing custom R functions for re-use
On 07/09/2011 09:30 PM, Simon Chamaill?-Jammes wrote:
Dear all, sorry if this is a bit on the sidetrack for R-help. As a regular R user I have developed quite a lot of custom R functions, to the point of not always remembering what I have already programmed, where the file is and so on. I was wondering what other people do in this regards. A basic file with all your functions, or a custom R package, or directly integrated into a profile file ??? I'm considering that a blog with tagged posts may be a good solution (and really good ones could join R-bloggers maybe). If someone is happy to share what (s)he considers good practice, thanks.
Hi Simon, This may or may not be good practice, but once I worked out how to make packages (see any of the tutorials on this), I just made a little package for each group of functions. Three of them grew up to be packages on CRAN, so it worked well for me. I think having the functions segregated into packages with an easy to recognise theme like the <blatant advertisement> clinsig package </blatant advertisement>, helps to organize the work for later use. Jim