Tricks to increase development speed

[jamesmbaazam]

Some usual development and rinse-and-repeat tasks like generating documentation, reloading the package to test new functionality by running devtools::load_all(), etc can take time when contributing to EpiNow2.

Could you share some tips on how you speed up your developing workflow? I'm hoping to put these together under a section of the contribution guide to help myself and future contributors. There have been talks of rebasing on the cmdstanr branch for example, to compile the models quickly. What are some other shortcuts/tricks you use?
@sbfnk and @seabbs

[sbfnk]

I don't think I have much to offer I'm afraid - when doing lots of work on the stan code I'd indeed sometimes work on branches based on the cmdstanr branch (which won't always recompile everything) and rebase to main only when done. But for work on R code no recompilation should be necessary. I'm not sure about devtools::load_all() but I'm pretty sure R CMD install only recompiles if/when the timestamp of the stan model files gets updated.