R: Make an R package from a data object

makeDataPackage {Biobase}

R Documentation

Make an R package from a data object

Description

This generic creates a valid R package from an R data object.

Usage

makeDataPackage(object, author, email,
                packageName=deparse(substitute(object)),
                packageVersion=package_version("1.0.0"),
                license="Artistic-2.0",
                biocViews="ExperimentData",
                filePath=tempdir(),
                ...)

Arguments

`object`	An instance of an R data object.
`author`	The author, as a character string.
`email`	A valid email address for the maintainer, as a character string.
`packageName`	The name of the package, defaults to the name of the object instance.
`packageVersion`	The version number, as a character string.
`license`	The license, as a character string.
`biocViews`	A character vector of valid biocViews views.
`filePath`	The location to create the package.
`...`	Additional arguments to specific methods.

Details

The function makes use of various tools in R and Bioconductor to automatically generate the source files for a valid R package.

Value

The return value is that from a call to link{createPackage} which is invoked once the default arguments are set up. The data instance is stored in the data directory with a name the same as that of the resulting package.

Note

Developers implementing derived methods might force correct package name evaluation by including 'packageName' in any callNextMethod().

Author(s)

R. Gentleman

Examples

 data(sample.ExpressionSet)
 ## package created in tempdir()
 s1 <- makeDataPackage(sample.ExpressionSet,
                       author = "Foo Author",
                       email = "foo@bar",
                       packageName = "FooBarPkg",
                       packageVersion = "1.0.0")

[Package Biobase version 2.38.0 Index]