Create R package from commandline prompts

create_R_package.r

[~] 
✈  R --silent

> boo = function(x) x*8
> boo(33)
[1] 264
> package.skeleton('boo', name='qux')
Creating directories ...
Creating DESCRIPTION ...
Creating NAMESPACE ...
Creating Read-and-delete-me ...
Saving functions and data ...
Making help files ...
Done.
Further steps are described in './qux/Read-and-delete-me'.
> q()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
[~] 
✈  cd qux/
[qux] 
✈  ls
DESCRIPTION		NAMESPACE		R			Read-and-delete-me	man
[qux] 
✈  rm Read-and-delete-me 
[qux] 
✈  rm -rf man/
[qux] 
✈  ls
DESCRIPTION	NAMESPACE	R
[qux] 
✈  ..
[~] 
✈  R CMD INSTALL qux/
* installing to library ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library’
* installing *source* package ‘qux’ ...
** R
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
No man pages found in package  ‘qux’ 
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
*** arch - i386
*** arch - x86_64

* DONE (qux)
[~] 
✈  R --silent

> require(qux)
Loading required package: qux
> ls()
character(0)
> boo(7)
[1] 56