ExtPackage {biodb} | R Documentation

## Extension package class

### Description

A class for generating the skeleton of a new extension package.

### Details

This class manages the files of an extension package.

It can generate all the files of a new extension package: DESCRIPTION, NEWS, README.md, tests, definitons.yml, etc. Optionnaly it also generates other files like: a `.travis.yml` file for Travis-CI, a Makefile for easing development on UNIX-like platforms outside of Rstudio.

It can also upgrade files of an existing package like: definitions.yml, Makefile, .travis.yml, LICENSE, etc.

### Super class

`biodb::ExtGenerator` -> `ExtPackage`

### Methods

#### Public methods

- `ExtPackage$new()`

- `ExtPackage$clone()`

Inherited methods

- `biodb::ExtGenerator$generate()`

- `biodb::ExtGenerator$upgrade()`

#### Method `new()`

Initializer.

##### Usage

    ExtPackage$new(...)

##### Arguments

`...`

  See the constructor of ExtGenerator for the parameters.

##### Returns

Nothing.

#### Method `clone()`

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

##### Usage

    ExtPackage$clone(deep = FALSE)

##### Arguments

`deep`

  Whether to make a deep clone.

### Examples

    # Generate a new package:
    pkgFolder <- file.path(tempfile(), 'biodbFoo')
    dir.create(pkgFolder, recursive=TRUE)
    biodb::ExtPackage$new(path=pkgFolder, dbName='foo.db',
                            dbTitle='Foo database', rcpp=TRUE,
                            connType='mass', entryType='txt', downloadable=TRUE,
                            remote=TRUE)$generate()

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