limbu2 / pkg-dev-tutorial

Package Development tutorial for useR! 2019 Toulouse

rstd.io/pkg-dev

Agenda for:

• Package Development tutorial
• July 9 2019, useR! 2019 tutorial day, Toulouse, France

rstd.io/pkg-dev <-- The One True URL that links to everything!

Pre-work

Recommended pre-workshop prep = Prepare your system section from the R Packages book

• If attempting prep in real-time, this might be enough:

  install.packages(c("devtools", "roxygen2", "testthat", "covr", "knitr"))

Agenda

Intro & basic package workflow Jenny Bryan - slides

Testing Jim Hester - slides

Documentation Hadley Wickham - slides

Instructors

• Jenny Bryan jennybryan.org | GitHub jennybc | Twitter jennybryan
• Jim Hester jimhester.com | GitHub jimhester | Twitter jimhester_
• Hadley Wickham hadley.nz | GitHub hadley | Twitter hadleywickham

Feedback and communication

Issues <-- all are encouraged to open issues as we go. This is actually tremendously helpful to us! Examples of issue-worthy thoughts:

• Glitches in the instructions or materials that we need to fix, for current tutorial or future
• Missing content that we identify
• Great questions or sidebar discussions that we should consider formalizing and recording
• Questions that are too specific or technical to answer in real-time

Resources

• R Packages
• What They Forgot to Teach You About R (bookdown site)
• Happy Git and GitHub for the useR (bookdown site)