Creating Your Own R Package

Jeff Shane
07/09/2015

Purpose

Why bother making your own package?

  • Reproducibility
  • Cohesive set of functions
  • Sharing
  • Documentation

Resources

http://hilaryparker.com/2014/04/29/writing-an-r-package-from-scratch/

Getting Started

Installing devtools and roxygen

install.packages("devtools")
library("devtools")
devtools::install_github("klutometis/roxygen")
library(roxygen2)