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Mastering RStudio: Develop, Communicate, and Collaborate with R

You're reading from   Mastering RStudio: Develop, Communicate, and Collaborate with R Harness the power of RStudio to create web applications, R packages, markdown reports and pretty data visualizations

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783982547
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. The RStudio IDE – an Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. Communicating Your Work with R Markdown 3. R Lesson I – Graphics System 4. Shiny – a Web-app Framework for R 5. Interactive Documents with R Markdown 6. Creating Professional Dashboards with R and Shiny 7. Package Development in RStudio 8. Collaborating with Git and GitHub 9. R for your Organization – Managing the RStudio Server 10. Extending RStudio and Your Knowledge of R Index

Building and checking a package


As we have seen before, RStudio makes many steps very easy when we want to build our own R package. RStudio also helps us with the finalizing steps of our package. These include building and testing our package and we can find the necessary options to perform these tasks in the build menu of RStudio.

These do not just help us as the final steps, but we also have to build and load our package a lot during the development process. This is the only way we can test all the functions of our package. To test our package, we should stick to the following steps:

  1. Tweak our code and perform changes to our packages code base.

  2. Build our package.

  3. Install the package.

  4. Unload the package.

  5. Reload the package.

RStudio actually performs all these steps with the command Build and Reload.

We can see the output in the Build pane.

Checking a package

The Check Package function in the Build menu will check all dependencies of our package. This is very useful as it shows us exactly where errors...

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