Creating R Packages

Package your work and share it. Creating your own package allows you to organize your code and data in a way that easily be shared and reused.
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Abstract

Most R users are familiar with loading and utilizing packages in their work but have never created a package of their own. Creating packages serves two main use cases:

  • Mechanism to redistribute reusable code (even if just for yourself)
  • Mechanism to reproducibly document analysis and models and their results

This lesson will walk you through a simple example of creating and documenting an R package. The goal is to demystify the complexity of this tool and encourage you and your collaborators to create a package as you see fit.