update on the ant package

September 3, 2009

(This article was first published on Romain Francois, Professional R Enthusiast, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

I have updated the ant package I described yesterday in this blog to add several things

Now the R code related to <r-set> and <r-run> tasks can either be given as the code attribute or as the text inside the task
The R code has access to special variables to manipulate the current project (project) and the current task (self) which can be used to set properties, get properties, ...
The package contains ant ant function so that ant can be invoked using a simple Rscript call, see below

The package now includes a demonstrative build.xml file in the examples directory

Here is the result

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