Category Archives: package creation

Hijacking R Functions: Changing Default Arguments

Posted on August 19, 2014 by tylerrinker

I am working on a package to collect common regular expressions into a canned collection that users can easily use without having to know regexes. The package, qdapRegex, has a bunch of functions in the form of rm_xxx. The only … Continue reading →

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Handling @S3method’s Death in roxygen2 Version 4.0.0

Posted on May 12, 2014 by tylerrinker

This is a quickie post and specific to package maintainers who use roxygen2. Legal Disclaimer: This worked for me but make sure there’s not a corner case that would make it not work for you.  In other words back your … Continue reading →

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GitHub Package Ideas I Stole

Posted on August 31, 2013 by tylerrinker

One of my favorite sources of good ideas is looking at the GitHub repositories of others and modeling my repos after the good ideas I see others doing. Here's Steve Jobs on stealing ideas: In the past few weeks I've … Continue reading →

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qdap 0.2.0 released

Posted on February 2, 2013 by tylerrinker

This is the first CRAN release of qdap (qdap 0.2.0) found here.  qdap (Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package) is an R package designed to assist in quantitative discourse analysis. The package stands as a bridge between qualitative transcripts of dialogue and … Continue reading →

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Tips for R Package Creation

Posted on December 31, 2012 by tylerrinker

I’m being tortured by the mistakes of my past self. I think I’ve made most every mistake possible in creating a package and I want to go back in time and tell year ago me all I know now. But … Continue reading →

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