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.

Description

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.

Prerequisites

• Intermediate R and RStudio user

Learning Goals

• Learn about the advantages of using R packages for organizing code
• Implement simple techniques for creating R packages
• Introduce approaches to documenting code in packages

Duration

1 hour