Welcome and introduction

R package development workshop

Joyce Robbins, Jesi Formoso, Heather Turner

Hello!

Senior Lecturer in Statistics

Columbia University

Associate Researcher

University of Buenos Aires

Principal RSE

University of Birmingham

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

Tuesdays, 14:30-16:00 UTC

Module	Date
Package foundations	May 20th
Function documentation and dependencies	June 3rd
Packaging data; Testing	June 17th
Package check and documentation	July 1st
Publication and maintenance	July 15th

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.