2. More on R & Building Packages

J. Hathaway

Today’s agenda

• Going through the process of
  • building and R package
  • publishing our R package to GitHub and GitHub Pages
  • Installing our R package locally
  • Installing R packages from GitHub
• Overview of this week’s and next week’s plan and assignments

This week’s plan

• Tuesday: Introduction to R packages and VSCode Setup (Today)
• Thursday: More on R packages (Thursday)

Introduction to our course r package

• DS 250 Gun Deaths Assignment
• US Deaths
• Private Github File Hathaway Built

Redo on our Repos

• Let’s delete the death repos we created last class from Github
• Let’s fork simplemaths to our personal GitHub accounts.
  1. Clone our forked repos to our local machines
  2. Add your assigned function
  3. Test locally
  4. Do a pull request to the original repo
  5. Install the package from GitHub and use your function

Let’s discuss our usdeaths package

• What functions should we include?
• What assignments can each of us take?

Pitches on your personal package ideas

• What kind of package would you like to build for your personal use?

Class Assignments

1. Make sure your environment is setup and that you can publish to GitHub pages
2. Read through The Getting started section (Chapters 1-5)
3. Create your own package repository for your personal R package.