Create your own R Package!

This presentation was given by Aubrey Odom in lab meeting on 6/26/25.

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📦 What This Presentation Covers

This presentation introduces the fundamentals of creating R packages, with a focus on bioinformatics tool development. It walks through the structure, tools, and best practices for building, documenting, and sharing reusable R code in a standardized, reproducible format.

📘 What You'll Learn

• What an R package is
• When and why to package your R code
• The core and optional components of an R package (e.g., R/, DESCRIPTION, man/, tests/)
• How to create a package using devtools and RStudio
• How to document functions with roxygen2 and generate help files
• Managing dependencies and exports with DESCRIPTION and NAMESPACE
• Best practices for coding style, error handling, and using example data