Package Development Workshop (Day 1) - Your First Package

We are thrilled to kick off our 2022 programming by welcoming Joyce Robbins to lead us through a two-day interactive package development workshop! This first module will guide participants through creation of their first package. Besides familiarity with R/RStudio and basic function writing, there are no prerequisites.

RSVP for this workshop is via Google Form: https://forms.gle/3rkuU8CZDMBrudfK8/. For more information about “Package Development Day 2 - Package Documentation,” see Meetup event https://www.meetup.com/rladies-newyork/events/283033569/. Participants are welcome to join either or both sessions.

Course materials are available here: https://github.com/jtr13/pkgdev/. Please note the “Pre-workshop setup” instructions for Windows and Mac.

Agenda for Day 1 (tentative):
Noon-1 pm: Lesson

• Where do R package come from?
• Why create R packages?
• Packages vs. scripts
• Creating initial package files
• Adding functions to the package
• Package states
• devtools::load_all(): testing and modifying functions
• devtools::document(): documenting your functions
  1-1:30 pm: Lab with Joyce and teaching assistants Erin Grand and Emily Dodwell

Instructor Biography:
Joyce Robbins, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Discipline in the Statistics Department at Columbia University, where she specializes in data visualization. She is a member of the R Forwards (R Foundation taskforce on women and other under-represented groups) teaching team, previously served as publications officer of the Statistical Graphics Section of the American Statistical Association Section, and is an active member of RLadies NYC.