The tidyverse bundles together a suite of packages that "share common data representations and 'API' design," allowing easy installation and loading of multiple packages at once. Inspired by the tidyverse, metamakr is designed to help users create their own verse of packages. It is a development tool that allows you to bundle your own related packages, e.g. all internal packages for a research lab or company. Read a blog post on metamakr here.
You can install the development version of metamakr from GitHub as follows:
if (!require("remotes")) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("jdtrat/metamakr")
# Load package
library(metamakr)metamakr provides one function, create_meta_package(), which accepts three arguments: the name of the meta package, a character vector of the packages to import, and (optionally), a logical vector indicating which of the imported packages are development versions.
create_meta_package() calls usethis::use_package() or usethis::use_dev_package() for each import and creates three files used to attach the packages as needed with a tidyverse-style startup message. These files are:
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| attach.R | Provides code used to attach all (unattached) packages. This includes the stylized startup message. |
| utils.R | Provides code for utility functions used to style startup message. |
| zzz.R | Defines the .onAttach() function to display the startup message. |