use_template: Use a Template

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Use a Template

Description

The devtools' or, later usethis' function hardcoded the source package, it had dialogs on opened files in RStudio. Did Stuff I do not want.

Usage

use_template(
  template,
  save_as = template,
  data = list(),
  ignore = FALSE,
  pkg = ".",
  source_package = "packager",
  git_commit = TRUE,
  force = isTRUE(getOption("packager")[["force"]])
)

Arguments

template	The name of the package's template (a file in the template directory).
save_as	The path where the template should be written to.
data	A named list of information used to render the new file from the template, typically the output of as.package.
ignore	Add the new file to ‘.Rbuildignore’?
pkg	The path to the package template shall be used for.
source_package	The name of the package from which the template should be read.
git_commit	Add the new file to git and commit?
force	Overwrite an existing file?

Value

TRUE on success, FALSE otherwise.

packager documentation built on Aug. 16, 2023, 5:08 p.m.