skeletor | An R Package Skeleton Generator

skeletor is a R library typically used in User Interface, Template Engine, Boilerplate applications. skeletor has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. However skeletor has a Non-SPDX License. You can download it from GitHub.

Skeletor is a tool for bootstrapping new packages with useful defaults and scaffolding. Package skeletons it creates contain a test suite outline and hooks for adding documentation. They also are created with a Makefile to facilitate running tests, checking test coverage, building vignettes, and more. Skeletor also sets up packages to use git/GitHub for version control and Travis-CI to build and test your packages whenever you push to GitHub. Integrations with Codecov.io and Appveyor are also made effortless, and with one additional argument, you can get additional boilerplate and testing setup for writing an R package that wraps an API. While other R package skeletons exist, I found that I never used them. The defaults of the base R's package.skeleton(), copying functions from the current R session, never are what I want, and what devtools::create() makes is too bare. I found that I was starting every package by copying the last package I made, deleting its code and tests, and renaming everything. skeletor automates that.