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

### See Also

`createPackage`

### 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 2.0.1 Index]