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Rcpp and roxygen2 with no additional dependencies. Throughout the vignette, we will focus on base R, Roxygen2 blocks appear in the final documentation. We will create an R package from scratch, add some very basic functionality and show how This vignette demonstrates four different ways to document Rcpp functions and classes in R cpp filesĪnd have it appear in the package reference manual. We can take advantage of this fact to add documentation directly to the. Rcpp also faithfully transcribes comment blocks from When using Rcpp in package development, the R functions in RcppExports.R are generatedĪutomatically from the source. Living right next to the functionality it describes, thus enabling easy maintenance and Of this model – besides not having to write *.Rd files by hand – is that documentation ends up Information from the comments and generates the corresponding man/*.Rd files.

Based on the Doxygen model, it parses relevant Roxygen2 is a convenient way to document functions in Documenting Rcpp functions and classes in R packages

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