Beginning Data Science in R: Data Analysis, Visualization, and Modelling for the Data Scientist

© Thomas Mailund 2017

Thomas Mailund, Beginning Data Science in R, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2671-1_11

11. Building an R Package

Thomas Mailund¹ 

(1)Aarhus, Denmark

You now know how to write functions and create classes in R, but neither functions nor classes is the unit you use for collecting and distributing R code. That unit is the package. It is packages that you load and import into your namespace when you write this:

library(something)

And it is packages you download when you write this:

install.packages("something")

The topic of this chapter is how to make your own packages. In the space available, I can only give a very broad overview of the structure of R packages, but it should be enough to get you started. If you want to read more, I warmly recommend ...