What are good example R packages written using RUnit or roxygen?

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What are good example R packages written using RUnit or roxygen?

I'm writing an R package that's going to be used by others, so I'm trying to get this one right! I want to use roxygen for documentation and RUnit for unit testing, but I haven't used them before.

What packages exist (either on CRAN or elsewhere) that use either of these tools well?

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Roxygen is used in Hadley's stringr (see also this previous SO question: R documentation with Roxygen), mutatr and testthat packages.

But testthat is used for testing in the mentioned packages instead of RUnit.

rcs 2010-03-23 08:35:20

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If you look at the RUnit page at CRAN you see the list of of packages that have a Depends:, Imports: or Suggests: on it. Maybe try one of those? The list includes plyr and a bunch of Rmetrics packages.

Likewise, the roxygen page at CRAN can be looked at but it only lists a single package.

Dirk Eddelbuettel 2010-03-23 10:13:19

Ideally a package doesn't end up with a dependency on roxygen when its used.

Shane 2010-03-23 11:22:21

Good point. But the approach is still useful for RUnit.

Dirk Eddelbuettel 2010-03-23 11:40:02

Absolutely! That's generally the best way to find packages that use another package.

Shane 2010-03-23 12:20:28

D'Oh ! Why didn't i think of the reverse depends on CRAN ???

PaulHurleyuk 2010-03-23 18:30:26

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