Mastering RStudio – Develop, Communicate, and Collaborate with R

Building packages with RStudio

RStudio combines the power of devtools with its GUI, which makes the development of your own packages very easy and manageable with just a few clicks.

Creating a new package project with RStudio

To create a new package with RStudio, just click on File | New Project... and select New Directory.

Then you can select R Package from the upcoming menu:

Now you have to set the necessary parameters for your R package. These include the type of the package, the package name, the option to create a package based on source files, and ...