Chapter 7. Package Development in RStudio
This chapter covers:
- Understanding the structure of R packages
- Creating package projects with RStudio
- Documenting your functions with R documentations files and roxygen2
- Building and testing your package
Understanding R packages
Packages are the most important aspect of the R language to create reproducible code and analysis. They are collections of R functions, data, and compiled code in a very standardized way. This makes it very easy to share them across R users and add new elements from others to already installed packages to take your R analysis to the next level. These packages can help to solve many tasks with R without having to write every single line of code on your own. If you take machine-learning ...
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