June 5, 2018

Package Structure

Structure

Shameless Plug

Create The Structure

  • Kristin covered a bit of the point and click package creation
  • We can also use the usethis package to create the package using code
# install.packages('usethis')
library(usethis)
usethis::create_package(path = '/Users/alval/Desktop/mypkg')
  • This will automatically create the man, DESCRIPTION, .Rproj, NAMESPACE, and R objects while opening a new RStudio session

Host on GitHub

  • You can create the GitHub repo online before making the package and clone locally
cd '/path/to/package'
git clone https://github.com/your_username/your_package_name.git
  • You can also set up GitHub through R
  • For this to work, you’ll need to set a GITHUB_PAT environment variable in your ~/.Renviron. Follow Jenny Bryan’s instructions or this R Blog, and use usethis::edit_r_environ() to easily access the right file for editing
# Make sure your working directory is set to the package
usethis::use_git(message = "my first commit")
cred = git2r::cred_ssh_key(publickey = "/Users/alval/.ssh/id_rsa.pub",
                           privatekey = "/Users/alval/.ssh/id_rsa")
usethis::use_github(credentials = cred)

DESCRIPTION Basic

Package: mypkg
Version: 0.0.0.9000
Title: What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)
Description: What the package does (one paragraph).
Authors@R: person("First", "Last", , "first.last@example.com", c("aut", "cre"))
License: What license it uses
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
ByteCompile: true
URL: https://github.com/avalcarcel9/mypkg
BugReports: https://github.com/avalcarcel9/mypkg/issues

  • I always copy and paste a previous packages DESCRIPTION and edit. If you don't have a previous option then find someone's on GitHub.

Dependencies

  • To declare that your project has some dependencies, use usethis::use_package():
usethis::use_package("ggplot2", type = "Imports")
usethis::use_package("knitr", type = "suggests")
  • You'll now see ggplot was added to Imports and knitr was added to Suggests section
  • You may want to manually add version numbers to dependencies
  • All packages you depend on should be up to date with the most recent version to avoid errors and warnings
sessionInfo()

Documentation

  • use_roxygen_md() sets up roxygen2 and enables markdown mode so you can use markdown in your roxygen2 comment blocks
  • use_package_doc() creates a skeleton documentation file for the complete package, taking the advantage of the latest roxygen2 features to minimize duplication between the DESCRIPTION and the documentation use_readme_rmd() creates a README.Rmd to describe what your package does and why people should care about it use_readme_md() creates a README.md to describe what your package does and why people should care about it
  • use_news_md() creates a basic NEWS.md for you to record changes
  • use_vignette("vignette-name") configures the DESCRIPTION and creates a .Rmd template in vignettes/

Badges

  • You can find a complete list of badges here
  • usethis provides some functions to create the badge code you'll add to the README
usethis::use_badge("travis", 
                   href = "https://img.shields.io/travis/USER/REPO.svg", 
                   src = "https://shields.io/")
usethis::use_cran_badge()
  • The package badgecreatr is also very useful
  • This package is still developmental so use with caution
# devtools::install_github("rmhogervorst/badgecreatr")
library(badgecreatr)
badgecreatr::badge_travis(ghaccount = "avalcarcel9", ghrepo = "mypkg")
badgecreatr::badge_codecov(ghaccount = "avalcarcel9", ghrepo = "mypkg")
badgecreatr::badge_cran(packagename = "mypkg")
badgecreatr::badge_packageversion(chunk = TRUE)

Build and Check

  • You can use devtools to do this with R code
# install.packages('devtools')
devtools::build(pkg = "mypkg", vignettes = TRUE)
devtools::check(pkg = "mypkg")
  • You can also use the point and click menu options if you're inside of your .Rproj
Build

Comments? Questions? Concerns?

Thank you for listening!