6 - Packaging, R Scripts :: STAT447 - Data Science Programming Methods - Fall 2022

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6 - Packaging, R Scripts

Objectives

Introduction to R package building
R package testing (RUnit, testthat, tinytest)
Introduction to scripting with R

Topics

Packages
- Why packages?
- Basic package structure
Package building
Package testing
Rscript and r
docopt

Core Material

Note that the first half of the material is new for 2022, but the second half are still from 2021 and will be updated next week.

Lecture Slides

Lecture 21 (2022): Package Building and short R code
Lecture 22 (2022): Package Testing and short R code
Lecture 23 (2022): R Scripting and example code.tar.gz
Lecture 24: Guest Lecture by John Mount on Nov 9, further details will be provided.

Lecture Videos

Video 35 (2022): Week 11 (ClassTranscribe, edited captions)
Video 36 (2021): Package Building (Box, captioned), also Video 36: Package Building (uncaptioned)
Video 37 (2021): Package Testing (Box, captioned), also Video 37: Package Testing (uncaptioned)
Video 38 (2022): Week 12 (ClassTranscribe, edited captions)
Video 39 (2021): R Scripting (Box, captioned), also Video 39: R Scripting (uncaptioned)
Video 40: Guest Lecture by John Mount, further details will be provided

Extras

Littler examples script directory

Additional Resources

Writing R Extensions manual (also included with every copy of R)
R Packages (1st ed), Wickham, 2015
R Packages (2nd ed), Wickham and Bryan, 2020