Making a data package

13:30 - 15:00

Outline

• Anatomy of an R package
• Data cleaning and the data-raw folder
• Documenting your data
• Checking your package
• Your package on GitHub and discussion on your package on CRAN

Slides

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Files for demo

• Demo steps: https://rstudio-conf-2022.github.io/teach-ds/materials/07-data-package/data-package-notes.md
• weather.csv: https://rstudio-conf-2022.github.io/teach-ds/materials/07-data-package/weather.csv
• cities.csv: https://rstudio-conf-2022.github.io/teach-ds/materials/07-data-package/cities.csv
• usweather.png: https://rstudio-conf-2022.github.io/teach-ds/materials/07-data-package/usweather.png

Exercises

Exercise prompts for this session are embedded in the slides since they only involve tasks to be completed in the package we’re developing.