Notes for R package development workflow

package-development.md

Package deveopment in R

This note is for myself from reading

• https://r-pkgs.org
• https://usethis.r-lib.org

usethis for automation

Many file creation and update can be accomplished with usethis. Some that I found useful are

• create_pacakge(): starts a package
• use_rcpp_eigen(): makes package appropriate for RcppEigen
• use_roxygen_md(): converts markdown in roxygen docummentation to Rd syntax
• use_package(): specify a pacakge dependency
• use_vignette(): create a vignette
  devtools::build_vignettes() compiles vignettes only devtools::build() builds package including vignettes devtools::install_*(build_vignettes = TRUE) builds vignettes (build_vignettes = FALSE is default)
• use_git(): initialize a git repository