R Package Development

Overview

Developing your own R package is a great way to reuse and distribute your R code. The workshop aims to demonstrate that developing and distributing an R package is easy to do, if you know how to write functions and use Git and GitHub.

Learning Objectives:

• Developing your first and minimally viable R package

Prerequisites: 

Assumes students have familiarity R and Git and GitHub.

If you haven't done, please install Git and sign up a new GitHub account.

• Install Git.
• Sign up a GitHub account. Also, don't forget to set up your user name and email