6 - Packaging, R Scripts :: STAT447 - Data Science Programming Methods - Fall 2021

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6 - Packaging, R Scripts

Objectives

Introduction to R package building
R package testing (RUnit, testthat, tinytest)
Introduction to scripting with R

Topics

Packages
- Why packages?
- Basic package structure
Package building
Package testing
Rscript and r
docopt

Core Material

Lecture Slides

Lecture 21: Package Building and short R code
Lecture 22: Package Testing and short R code
Lecture 23: R Scripting and example code.tar.gz
Lecture 24: Guest Lecture by Emily Riederer on Nov 10: Video (with U of I access).

Lecture Videos

Extras

Littler examples script directory

Additional Resources

Writing R Extensions manual (also included with every copy of R)
R Packages (1st ed), Wickham, 2015
R Packages (2nd ed), Wickham and Bryan, 2020