workshops

Your first package!

This workshop shows you how to make version controlled package linked to a remote repository on GitHub using the devtools approach.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this module the successful learner will be able to:

• create a simple version controlled package
• explain the key components of a minimal package
• use the package interactively with load_all()
• link a local version controlled package to a remote repository on GitHub
• use check() to execute R CMD check
• populate a DESCRIPTION and LICENSE files

Prerequisites

You need to have:

• “Packages in a nutshell” or equivalent experience
• “Setting up your system” or equivalent experience
• the packages devtools, roxygen2, testthat and knitr installed
• R build toolchain: Rtools(windows) or XCode (mac) or r-base-dev