R package development

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Building R packages is not particular hard, but it can be a bit of a daunting endeavour at the beginning, particularly if you are more of a statistician than a computer scientist or programmer.

Some concepts may appear foreign or like red tape, yet many of them evolved over time for a reason. They help to stay organise, collaborate more effectively with others and write better code.

So, here are my slides of the R package development workshop at Lancaster University.

R package development

For a detailed and authoritative reference on R package development see the Writing R Extensions manual on CRAN.

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