Hilary Parker • 4/29/2014

Writing an R package from scratch

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This article is a technical tutorial on building a basic R package from scratch. It covers the motivation for creating personal packages to avoid code duplication, and provides step-by-step instructions using devtools and roxygen2. It includes creating a package directory, adding functions, and adding documentation, aimed at improving a developer's workflow and reproducibility.

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