pkglite

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A tool, grammar, and standard to represent and exchange R package source code as text files. Converts one or more source packages to a text file and restores the package structures from the file.

Installation

You can install the package via CRAN:

install.packages("pkglite")

Or, install from GitHub:

remotes::install_github("Merck/pkglite")

Workflow

library("pkglite")

Pack one R package:

"/path/to/package/" %>%
  collate(file_default()) %>%
  pack()

Pack multiple R packages:

pack(
  "/path/to/pkg1/" %>% collate(file_default()),
  "/path/to/pkg2/" %>% collate(file_default()),
  output = "/path/to/pkglite.txt"
)

Unpack one or more packages:

"/path/to/pkglite.txt" %>%
  unpack(output = "/path/to/output/")