Code generation in R packages - R-hub blog

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Code generation in R packages - R-hub blog

https://blog.r-hub.io/2020/02/10/code-generation/

[MarkEdmondson1234]

Interesting post and twitter discussion! I came across R code generation when working with the Google APIs since all the libraries can be generated from Google’s Discovery API. googleAuthR will generate working R functions and put them in a package that may even pass a CRAN CMD check - however usually a bit of tweaking is needed to make them more usable by humans. But for documentation alone it’s a good basis to start from.

[maelle]

Thanks, what a cool example, and I see you've even written a whole article "Building your own Google R library
"!

[kent37]

The analysis addin in my phenoptrReports package takes user input and generates a script to perform a data analysis. This is a bit of a different use case than any you present here. The code is pretty clunky - a lot of glue::glue and conditional code. I would love to find a better way to do it.

[nfultz]

Literate programming also relies on some similar methods to extract and generate code from documents; actually, the compiler package is probably the most-used literate program in circulation right now.