Use a template file

Expands a whisker-based template file by substituting named placeholders. Templates are stored in inst/templates/ and selected from via a menu if .template_name is not specified. The resulting file is written to R/generated-*.R.

Usage

use_template(.template_name = NULL, ..., .overwrite = FALSE, .destfile = NULL)

Arguments

.template_name

if not given a dialog will be presented with the options

...

supplied as parameters to the template. template placeholders such as `xxx.#name#_yyy`, will be substituted with xxx.myname_yyy if name="myname". The first value of this list will be used for `##` placeholders

.overwrite

overwrte the destination file if it exists

.destfile

if given will write the expanded template here.

Value

the written file name

Examples

# List available templates:
# list.files(system.file("templates", package = "pkgtools"))

# Use a template by name:
# use_template("some_template", name = "mything", .destfile = "R/generated-mything.R")