Creating R Packages: A Tutorial

Leisch, Friedrich (2008): Creating R Packages: A Tutorial. In: Brito, Paula (ed.) , Compstat 2008 - Proceedings in Computational Statistics. Physica Verlag: Heidelberg, Germany.

Abstract

This tutorial gives a practical introduction to creating R packages. We discuss how object oriented programming and S formulas can be used to give R code the usual look and feel, how to start a package from a collection of R functions, and how to test the code once the package has been created. As running example we use functions for standard linear regression analysis which are developed from scratch.

• Item Type: Book Section
• Keywords: R packages, statistical computing, software, open source
• Subjects: Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics > Statistics > Technical Reports