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Installing an R package from local unzipped folder

I am having difficulty installing an unzipped package on a Windows 7 computer without administrative privileges and no internet access. I am using the RGui (not RStudio). Right now I have an unzipped library sitting in a directory. Unfortunately,…
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The correct use of devtools and/or RStudio with respect to .Rbuildignore

I'd like to exclude the following ressources when building an R package via .Rbuildignore: ^.*\.Rproj$ ^\.Rproj\.user$ inst/examples inst/prof man-roxygen tests But I'm confused as sometimes it seems to work and sometimes it doesn't. I'm guessing…
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'data' is not an exported object from 'namespace:my_package'

I'm writing a function that uses an external data as follow: First, it checks if the data is in the data/ folder, if it is not, it creates the data/ folder and then downloads the file from github; If the data is already in the data/ folder, it reads…
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Building a package with devtools - throwing an error where "Author" and "Maintainer" fields are missing/empty despite being filled

In my DESCRIPTION file I have used the AUTHORS@R syntax to generate the Author and Maintainer fields, but in the R CMD Check process it keeps throwing an error message saying the fields are empty: > checking for file 'bar/DESCRIPTION' ... ERROR …
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update packages installed from github

I'm using more and more dev packages installed from github. I find myself wondering if there is an easy way to update these packages? Essentially looking for something like update.packages() equivalent for install_github() (or indeed any other…
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Why does Chrome DevTools show multiple garbled versions of my source code for my Vue application?

I have a Vue application and I'm trying to debug it in Chrome DevTools. The problem is when I try to find the file I want to debug, I get a list of files with the same name plus some weird hash tacked onto the end: When I open any one file, I get…
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How to use @inheritParams on single parameters when multiple parameters match?

I would like to document an R function and inherit individual parameter documentation from other functions when multiple parameter names match. For example, lets say I have the following 2 functions. #' Function 1. #' #' Description of function…
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R: checking for non-standard things in the check directory ... NOTE Found the following files/directories

This is the error I get after running devtools::check_rhub() checking for non-standard things in the check directory ... NOTE Found the following files/directories: 'disk.frame-Ex_i386.Rout' 'disk.frame-Ex_x64.Rout' 'examples_i386' …
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R devtools fails as "Package libxml-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path"

I am trying to install devtools in R version 3.2.1, however when I do the following error is thrown: Package libxml-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing libxml-2.0.pc to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH…
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R package build Undocumented code objects

I have written an R package for integrating with electronic medical records. I think I have correctly added the imports and dependencies in the DESCRIPTION file and documented everything via roxygen2, but on three of my functions (which are all in…
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How to export S3 method so it is available in namespace?

I am creating a package and for S3 methods I export them using ##' @method predict myclass ##' @export predict.myclass <- function(object,...) { } Now when I load the package, then predict works on object of the class myclass, but function…
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character(0) warnings when running devtools::load_all(".") in RStudio

I have an R package that I've been building in RStudio, let's called it my_pkg. When I run devtools::load_all(".") within RStudio (specifically using the Ctrl + Shift + L shortcut), I get the following message: Loading my_pkg Warning messages: 1:…
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R data.table breaks in exported functions

I'm having a problem getting data.table to work in roxygen2 exported functions. Here's a simple, fake function in a file called foo.R (located in the R directory of my package) which uses data.table: #' Data.table test function #' @export foo <-…
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devtools::test() works but devtools::check() doesn't. Why?

I'm testing this R package. The following three things work just fine: devtools::test() devtools::test_file("tests/testthat.R") Travis-CI with release version of R However, the following things devtools::check() devtools::build_win() # (see…
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Is Git ready to be recommended to my boss?

I want to recomment Git to my boss as a new source control system, since we're stuck in the 90s with VSS (ouch), but are the tools and 3rd party support good enough yet? Specifically I'm talking about GUI front-ends similar to TortoiseSVN, decent…
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