[Roxygen-devel] Documenting data in data directory

Rainer M Krug Rainer at krugs.de
Tue Aug 25 15:06:35 CEST 2015


Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> writes:

> Oooh, I didn't carefully read your data file - I don't think roxygen2
> supports .R files in your data dir.  You'll need to do it by "hand",
> ie.
>
> #' location of cache
> #'
> #  Cache to be used for the computations
> #'
> #' @format Character vector of length one.
> #' @name CACHE
> #' @docType data
> NULL

OK - I'll do it like that.

Thanks,

Rainer

>
> Hadley
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
>> Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> You possibly don't have LazyData: true in your DESCRIPTION.
>>
>> Thank - I had
>>
>> LazyData: yes
>>
>> and now I have
>>
>> LazyData: true
>>
>> but I still get the same error message?
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>> Hadley
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to document data which is defined in a file named
>>>> ./data/fileNames.R which looks as follow:
>>>>
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>>> CACHE <- file.path( getwd(), "cache")
>>>> SQLITEDB  <- file.path(CACHE, "energyBalance.sqlite")
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>>
>>>> But I am struggling with documenting it.
>>>>
>>>> It seems that when I put the
>>>>
>>>> I have the following documentation for CACHE in the file ./R/CACHE.R:
>>>>
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>>> #' location of cache
>>>> #'
>>>> #  Cache to be used for the computations
>>>> #'
>>>> #' @format Character vector of length one.
>>>> #'
>>>> "CACHE"
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>>
>>>> But I get the following error when running roxygenise():
>>>>
>>>> ,----
>>>> | Error: Failure in roxygen block beginning CACHE.R:1
>>>> | object 'CACHE' not found
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions how I can document each data variable?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Rainer
>>>>
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Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

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