Chapter 3 Make a package

Let’s start making a package!

3.1 in RStudio

3.2 on your command line

Using the devtools package:

devtools::create("foo")

Or, with the mason package:

install first:

devtools::install_github("metacran/mason")
devtools::install_github("metacran/mason.rpkg")
devtools::install_github("metacran/mason.github")

Create a package

mason::mason('github')

See https://github.com/metacran/mason for details

3.3 usethis

Optionally, you can use the usethis package https://github.com/r-lib/usethis to help in package creation/maintainance.

use_mit_license("My Name")
use_package("MASS", "Suggests")
use_dev_package("callr")
use_readme_md()
use_news_md()
use_test("my-test")
use_git()