Ignore file(s) with Roxygen

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I'm quite new in (and unwilling to learn) package creation/administration, so excuse-moi if I'm asking something trivial. I'm familiar with git, though, and I'd like to know if there's a similar functionality to .gitignore in roxygen. Since I use ESS, I often have a lot of backup files (*~), which are then picked up and processed with R CMD roxygen. Of course, I'd like to skip that in a more elegant manner - right now I have a shell script with find anolyzer/ -name "*~" -exec rm {} \; that flushes the nasty backups... but I kind-of need them, and just want to ignore them on install.

Disclaimer: unwiling to learn = unwilling to comb down the lengthy manuals and desperate for neat, quick and dirty one-liner

credits to John Myles White for stressing the "unwilling" part

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I'm not aware of a way to ignore files with Roxygen/2 specifically, but there are a number of options available to avoid the problem.

  • Delete the backups as you are now doing
  • Instead of deleting them, move them to another directory outside of the package directory.
  • Setup emacs to not save backups in your working directory (http://amitp.blogspot.com/2007/03/emacs-move-autosave-and-backup-files.html)