The goal of pkgdev is to provide the R Package Developer a suite of tools to simplify and aid the various processes involved with creating, developing, testing, maintaining, and overall management of their R Packages.
Installation
You can install the development version of pkgdev with pak like so: 1
pak::pak("jimbrig/pkgdev")Usage
pkgdev comes with many tools out-of-the-box for package developer’s in R to quickly get started:
Create a new package
To create a new R package locally, run pkgdev::create_pkg():
pkgdev::create_pkg("myawesomepkg", pkgdevt_script = TRUE, github = TRUE)This will perform the following steps:
- Create a new directory called
myawesomepkg - Initialize an RStudio project,
myawesomepkg.Rproj, within that directory
Jimmy Briggs | jimmy.briggs@jimbrig.com | 2022