Welcome and introduction

R package development workshop

Ella Kaye, Pao Corrales, Elio Campitelli

Hello!

Senior Research Software Engineer

University of Birmingham

Research Software Engineer

21st Century Weather Centre

Atmospheric Scientist

Monash University

Website and slides

https://forwards.github.io/package-dev
Website and slides repo

https://github.com/forwards/package-dev
Course text: R Packages (2nd edition), Hadley Wickham and Jennifer Bryan

https://r-pkgs.org

Mondays, 10:00-12:00 UTC

Module	Date	Lead	Facilitator
Package foundations	May 18th	Ella	Pao
Function documentation and dependencies	June 1st	Ella	Elio
Packaging data; Testing	June 15th	Ella	Pao
Package check and documentation	June 29th	Pao	Elio
Publication and maintenance	July 13th	Pao	Elio

In each module we will cover different elements of an R package
- Think of this elements as pieces of a puzzle, you don’t want to miss one!
- The course builds cumulatively

If you can’t attend to a session, please follow the material and do the exersises to catch up before the next one.