Philosophy behind the tools of R Package development

• Anything that can be automated, should be automated.
• Use functions for package development, avoid doing it by hand.
  • To do this, we need to learn the functions/workflow.
  • Our thinking should be on what we want the package to do, not on how to organize a package.
  • This is where the devtools and usethis package come into play.
  • Tools to insulate us from the low-level details of how packages are built.
• devtools works nicely with RStudio, so that’s the development environment we will use.

install.packages(c("devtools", "usethis"))