The ant package has been released to CRAN yesterday. As discussed in previous posts in this blog (here and here), the ant R package provides an R-aware version of the ant build tool from the apache project. The package contains an R script that c... [Read more...]

I have updated the ant package I described yesterday in this blog to add several things Now the R code related to and tasks can either be given as the code attribute or as the text inside the task The R code has acces... [Read more...]

ant is an amazing build tool. I have been using ant for some time to build the java code that lives inside the src directories of my R packages, see this post for example. The drawbacks of this approach are : that it assumes ant is available on... [Read more...]

This is a post in the series Mixing R CMD build and ant. Previous posts have shown how to compile the java code that lives in the src directory of a package and how to document this code using javadoc. This post tackles the problem of unit testin... [Read more...]