Print the package description, news, citation, manual pages, and source code

Helper functions to retrieve various types of package information that can be put together as the full package documentation like a pkgdown website. These functions can be called inside any R Markdown document.

pkg_desc(name = detect_pkg())

pkg_news(
  name = detect_pkg(),
  path = detect_news(name),
  recent = 1,
  toc = TRUE,
  number_sections = TRUE,
  ...
)

pkg_code(
  path = attr(detect_pkg(), "path"),
  pattern = "[.](R|c|h|f|cpp)$",
  toc = TRUE,
  number_sections = TRUE,
  link = TRUE
)

pkg_citation(name = detect_pkg())

pkg_manual(
  name = detect_pkg(),
  toc = TRUE,
  number_sections = TRUE,
  overview = TRUE,
  examples = list()
)

Arguments

name: The package name (by default, it is automatically detected from the DESCRIPTION file if it exists in the current working directory or upper-level directories).
path: For pkg_news(), path to the NEWS.md file. If empty, news() will be called to retrieve the news entries. For pkg_code(), path to the package root directory that contains R/ and/or src/ subdirectories.
recent: The number of recent versions to show. By default, only the latest version's news entries are retrieved. To show the full news, set recent = 0.
toc: Whether to add section headings to the document TOC (when TOC has been enabled for the document).
number_sections: Whether to number section headings (when sections are numbered in the document).
...: Other arguments to be passed to news().
pattern: A regular expression to match filenames that should be treated as source code.
link: Whether to add links on the file paths of source code. By default, if a GitHub repo link is detected from the BugReports field of the package DESCRIPTION, GitHub links will be added to file paths. You can also provide a string template containing the placeholder %s (which will be filled out with the file paths via sprintf()), e.g., https://github.com/yihui/litedown/blob/main/%s.
overview: Whether to include the package overview page, i.e., the {name}-package.Rd page.
examples: A list of arguments to be passed to xfun::record() to run examples each help page, e.g., list(dev = 'svg', dev.args = list(height = 6)). If not a list (e.g., FALSE), examples will not be run.

Value

A character vector (HTML or Markdown) that will be printed as is inside a code chunk of an R Markdown document.

pkg_desc() returns an HTML table containing the package metadata.

pkg_news() returns the news entries.

pkg_code() returns the package source code under the R/ and src/ directories.

pkg_citation() returns the package citation in both the plain-text and BibTeX formats.

pkg_manual() returns all manual pages of the package in HTML.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
litedown::pkg_desc()
litedown::pkg_news()
litedown::pkg_citation()
} # }