Additional Resources / Readings

R Packages for Writing R Packages

(Don’t forget any cheatsheets!)

• “devtools”
  • The devtools package by Hadley Wickham, Jim Hester, and Winston Chang, with functions to simplify the tasks when developing R packages.
• “usethis”
  • The usethis package by Hadley Wickham and Jenny Bryan, with handy workflow functions for R packages and other R-based projects.
• “roxygen2”
  • The roxygen2 package by Hadley Wickham, Peter Danenberg, Gábor Csárdi, and Manuel Eugster for writing documentation.
• “pkgdown”
  • The pkgdown package by Hadley Wickham and Jay Hesselberth, creates nice-looking websites based off the documentation for R packages.
• “testthat”
  • The testthat package by Hadley Wickham, simplifies the process of writing and running tests.

Other Resources

• “Happy Git and GitHub for the useR”
  • Detailed instructions and workflows for installing Git, connecting it with GitHub, and configuring RStudio to work with Git and GitHub
• “Get help with GitHub personal access tokens”
  • Information about setting up a GitHub personal access token, from the usethis documentation.
• “GitHub Actions for R”
  • Jim Hester’s talk from RStudio Conf 2020 on GitHub Actions
• “Example Github Action scripts”
  • Example workflows for checking packages using GitHub Actions
• “A Friendly Introduction to Github for Project Version Control”
  • Lesson materials from Hao Ye, introducing GitHub
• “Issuing a persistent identifier for your repository with Zenodo”
  • Instructions on archiving your repository to Zenodo, to get a DOI

Readings

• “Packaging Data Analytical Work Reproducibly Using R (and Friends)”
  • paper from Ben Marwick, Carl Boettiger, and Lincoln Mullen on structuring projects as Research Compendia, with examples of varying complexity
• “R Packages”
  • Hadley Wickham and Jenny Bryan’s book on writing R packages