12 CREATING FUNCTIONS AND PACKAGES
In this chapter, you will learn how to define your own R functions, including the parameters they should accept. Then, you’ll create a package to distribute those functions, add your code and dependencies to it, write its documentation, and choose the license under which to release it.
Saving your code as custom functions and then distributing them in packages can have numerous benefits. First, packages make your code easier for others to use. For example, when researchers at the Moffitt Cancer Center needed to access code from a database, data scientists Travis Gerke and Garrick Aden-Buie used to write ...
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