Creating R Packages: A Tutorial

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

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
• Faculties: Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics > Statistics > Technical Reports
• ISBN: 978-3-7908-2083-6
• Place of Publication: Heidelberg, Germany
• Language: German