Package Development Workshop (Day 2) - Package Documentation

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 second hour-long module will guide participants through types of and tools for package documentation. It builds upon material from “Package Development Day 1 - Your First Package” (see Meetup event https://www.meetup.com/rladies-newyork/events/283033216/), however participants can join this second session independently. 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/.

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

Agenda for Day 2 (tentative):
Noon-1 pm: Lesson

• devtools::check(): checking a package
• Naming your package
• Licensing your package
• Adding dependencies
• Adding examples to documentation
• Creating vignettes
• Using git/GitHub
• Where next?
  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.