R Packages: Organize, Test, Document, and Share Your Code

by Hadley Wickham, Jenny Bryan

Turn your R code into packages that others can easily install and use. With this fully updated edition, developers and data scientists will learn how to bundle reusable R functions, sample data, and documentation together by applying the package development philosophy used by the team that maintains the "tidyverse" suite of packages. In the process, you'll learn how to automate common development tasks using a set of R packages, including devtools, usethis, testthat, and roxygen2. Authors Hadley Wickham and Jennifer Bryan from Posit (formerly known as RStudio) help you create packages quickly, then teach you how to get better over time. You'll be able to focus on what you want your package to do as you progressively develop greater mastery of the structure of a package. With this book, you

Genres: Programming

381 pages, Paperback

Published July 25, 2023

Reviews

[Cheyenne Davis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a hard R topic to explain. There are so many moving parts and I have always been to intimidated to move from scripts to packages, but I am finally doing it for some of my tasks and this book is a big help! As with all the other books he has contributed to, Hadley Wickham truly knows his stuff well enough to explain it to a "kid" (me!).