R bindings for Xapian - Project progress

[James Aylett]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 09:24:55PM +0530, Amanda Jayanetti wrote:

> Users can install RXapian package directly from github using the
> command 'install_github(“RXapian”)'. Once the package is
> installed, if automatically generated documentation(.Rd files) were
> included in the git repository, users can easily view all the
> information about the package, functions, parameters as well as
> examples by simply pressing f1 (in Rstudio). This is a very helpful
> feature which will not be available to users/evaluators of RXapian
> if those files were removed. So wouldn't it be better to include
> documentation files in git repo until RXapian is contributed to
> CRAN?

Oh, that's disappointing. There's no way to customise the R
build/install process to create them as required?

I still think we really want to get rid of them, since at the moment
the extension is still of very limited use, and once it hits a basic
level of usability we'll want to submit a release to CRAN pretty much
straight away.

J

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