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Tutorial: My first R package
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Uwe Ligges, Department of Statistics, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
Abstract
After an introduction and general discussion regarding R packages, we
will focus on the installation and administration of packages in
several libraries. In order to develop a package, the tools for
building, installing and checking the package must be set up
appropriately and the handling of these tools will be discussed. The
main part is the development of the package: preparing functions and
data, writing documentation, including C code,
looking at scoping issue and solving name clashes by introducing a
namespace, as well as the debugging. All these topics will be
discussed.
Outline
- Introduction
- Usefulness of R packages
- Installation and administration of R packages in libraries
- Make the build tools work
- Using R CMD build, INSTALL, check
- Development of R packages
- Data
- Functions
- Documentation format and processing
- C Code
- Scoping issues
- Namespaces
- Debugging
Potential attendees
R users interested in package development.
Requirements
We expect participants to bring their own WLAN enabled
laptops with a working R installation (of the current version) to the tutorial.
Related link
The presenter is the author of
Programmieren mit R, Springer, 2009.
Tutorial Materials
Slides are here.