It involves you creating your R package from bare bones and is a fantastic introduction.

Hilary Parker’s “Writing an R package from scratch” - This was the resource that helped me get started on making my first R package.

There are already at least two wonderful resources that explain how to make your first R package: This post discusses the typical workflow that I use to generate R packages.

R scripts! An R package gives an easy way to distribute your code for others. An R package provides a great consistent documentation structure and actually encourages you to document your functions. Consistent documentation: I can barely remember what half of my functions do let alone the inputs and outputs.An R package would help in organizing where my functions go. Often times, I end up just re-writing it because it is faster than searching all my.

Code Organization: I am always trying to figure out where that “function” I wrote months, weeks, or even days ago.

Now why would I or anyone else do this? A few key reasons:

I finally decided it was time to take the next step and start wrapping all my utility functions, that are scattered across numerous.

R files instead of combining it into a package' said no one ever #rstats - David Robinson June 19, 2015 'I wish I'd left this code across scattered. This post is inspired by a hilarious tweet that David Robinson made on June 19th, 2015:

Create your own r package