createPackage: Create a Package Directory from a Template
In Biobase: Biobase: Base functions for Bioconductor

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Create a package directory from a template, with symbol-value substitution

1	createPackage(pkgname, destinationDir, originDir, symbolValues, unlink=FALSE, quiet=FALSE)

`pkgname`	Character. The name of the package to be written.
`destinationDir`	Character. The path to a directory where the package is to be written.
`originDir`	Character. The path to a directory that contains the template package. Usually, this will contain a file named `DESCRIPTION`, and subdirectories `R`, `man`, `data`. In all files and filenames, symbols will be replaced by their respective values, see the parameter `symbolValues`.
`symbolValues`	Named list of character strings. The symbol-to-value mapping. See `copySubstitute` for details.
`unlink`	Logical. If `TRUE`, and `destinationDir` already contains a file or directory with the name `pkgname`, try to unlink (remove) it.
`quiet`	Logical. If `TRUE`, do not print information messages.

The intended use of this function is for the automated mass production of data packages, such as the microarray annotation, CDF, and probe sequence packages.

No syntactic or other checking of the package is performed. For this, use R CMD check.

The symbols @PKGNAME@ and @DATE@ are automatically defined with the values of pkgname and date(), respectively.

The function returns a list with one element pkgdir: the path to the package.

Wolfgang Huber http://www.dkfz.de/mga/whuber

copySubstitute, the reference manual Writing R extensions.

  sym  = list(AUTHOR = "Hesiod", VERSION = "1.0",
         TITLE = "the nine muses",
         FORMAT = "Character vector containg the names of the 9 muses.")

  res  = createPackage("muses",
           destinationDir = tempdir(),
           originDir      = system.file("Code", package="Biobase"),
           symbolValues   = sym,
           unlink = TRUE, quiet = FALSE)

  muses = c("Calliope", "Clio", "Erato", "Euterpe", "Melpomene",
            "Polyhymnia", "Terpsichore", "Thalia", "Urania")

  dir.create(file.path(res$pkgdir, "data"))

  save(muses, file = file.path(res$pkgdir, "data", "muses.rda"))

  res$pkgdir