Advanced R 4 Data Programming and the Cloud: Using PostgreSQL, AWS, and Shiny

© Matt Wiley and Joshua F. Wiley 2020

M. Wiley, J. F. WileyAdvanced R 4 Data Programming and the Cloudhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5973-3_6

6. Writing Packages

Matt Wiley¹  and Joshua F. Wiley²

(1)

Victoria College, Victoria, TX, USA

(2)

Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

 

Packages are the fundamental way to document, share, and distribute R code and data. Our goal is to write our own package. As a fair warning, this chapter is particularly complex because of the many software tools that are employed during R package development.

In this chapter, we make use of several packages. The devtools package [32] provides functions to help set up, document, and manage the development of an R package. The devtools package in turn installs and loads ...