R Package Developer’s Toolkit - pkgdev

The goal of pkgdev is to provide the R Package Developer a suite of tools to simplify and aid the various processes involved with creating, developing, testing, maintaining, and overall management of their R Packages.

Installation

You can install the development version of pkgdev with pak like so: ¹

pak::pak("jimbrig/pkgdev")

Usage

pkgdev comes with many tools out-of-the-box for package developer’s in R to quickly get started:

Create a new package

To create a new R package locally, run pkgdev::create_pkg():

pkgdev::create_pkg("myawesomepkg", pkgdevt_script = TRUE, github = TRUE)

This will perform the following steps:

1. Create a new directory called myawesomepkg
2. Initialize an RStudio project, myawesomepkg.Rproj, within that directory

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Jimmy Briggs | [email protected] | 2022

Footnotes

1. Similarly, you can install the package using the more common devtools::install_github() and remotes::install_github(). If you need to install pak, install the development version using install.packages("pak", repos = "https://r-lib.github.io/p/pak/devel/"). ↩