27  Creating R Packages

28 Creating R Packages

One of the things our group does is create R packages and help with maintenance of R packages. For example, volcalc and azmetr were both initially developed as incubator projects.

Things this page should eventually include:

• links to best practices for R packages (rOpenSci guide, usethis, style guide)
• link to Hadley’s book on R packages
• discussion about CRAN vs r-universe
• guide on releases and versions and Zotero integration (CITATION.cff, cffr package)
• discussion about package maintainance and handoff of maintainance
• use of repostatus badge to signal lifecycle

28.0.1 R-Universe

R-Universe is an rOpenSci project that makes it easier to install R packages that are not on CRAN or Bioconductor. We use our r-universe page primarily to make it easier for our collaborators to install R packages, and as a “portfolio” of R packages our team has created or contributed significantly to.

To add a GitHub repo with an R package to cct-datascience.r-universe.dev, simply edit the JSON file here: https://github.com/cct-datascience/cct-datascience.r-universe.dev using the instructions linked to in the README.