createPackage {Biobase} | R Documentation

## Create a Package Directory from a Template

### Description

Create a package directory from a template, with symbol-value substitution

### Usage

    createPackage(pkgname, destinationDir, originDir, symbolValues, unlink=FALSE, quiet=FALSE)

### Arguments

`pkgname` | Character. The name of the package to be written.
`destinationDir` | Character. The path to a directory where the package is to be written.
`originDir` | Character. The path to a directory that contains the template package. Usually, this will contain a file named `DESCRIPTION`, and subdirectories `R`, `man`, `data`. In all files and filenames, symbols will be replaced by their respectives values, see the parameter `symbolValues`.
`symbolValues` | Named list of character strings. The symbol-to-value mapping. See `copySubstitute` for details.
`unlink` | Logical. If `TRUE`, and `destinationDir` already contains a file or directory with the name `pkgname`, try to unlink (remove) it.
`quiet` | Logical. If `TRUE`, do not print information messages.

### Details

The intended use of this function is for the automated mass production of data packages, such as the microarray annotation, CDF, and probe sequence packages. An example is in the function `makeProbePackage`.

No syntactic or other checking of the package is performed. For this, use R CMD check.

The symbols `@PKGNAME@` and `@DATE@` are automatically defined with the values of `pkgname` and `\date()`, respectively.

### Value

The function returns a `list` with one element `pkgdir`: the path to the package.

### Author(s)

Wolfgang Huber http://www.dkfz.de/mga/whuber

### See Also

`copySubstitute`, `makeProbePackage`, the reference manual Writing R extensions.

### Examples

      sym  = list(AUTHOR = "Hesiod", VERSION = "1.0",
             TITLE = "the nine muses",
             FORMAT = "Character vector containg the names of the 9 muses.")

      res  = createPackage("muses",
               destinationDir = tempdir(),
               originDir      = system.file("Code", package="Biobase"),
               symbolValues   = sym,
               unlink = TRUE, quiet = FALSE)

      muses = c("Calliope", "Clio", "Erato", "Euterpe", "Melpomene",
                "Polyhymnia", "Terpsichore", "Thalia", "Urania")

      dir.create(file.path(res$pkgdir, "data"))

      save(muses, file = file.path(res$pkgdir, "data", "muses.rda"))

      res$pkgdir

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