Chapter 24. Building R Packages
As of late-July 2013, there were 4,714 packages on CRAN and another 671 on Bioconductor, with more being added daily. In the past, building a package had the potential to be mystifying and complicated but that is no longer the case, especially when using Hadley Wickham’s devtools package.
All packages submitted to CRAN (or Bioconductor) must follow specific guidelines, including the folder structure of the package, inclusion of DESCRIPTION and NAMESPACE files and proper help files.
24.1. Folder Structure
An R package is essentially a folder of folders, each containing specific files. At the very minimum there must be two folders, one called R where the included functions go, and the other called man where the ...
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