We strongly recommend the use of formal version control and, at this point in time, Git is the obvious choice. But even if it’s not RStudio, we strongly recommend working with an IDE that has specific support for R and R package development. That’s what we document, since it’s what we use and devtools is developed to work especially well with RStudio. In Section 5.3 we encouraged the use of the RStudio IDE for package development work. You will notice that we recommend using certain tools:Īn integrated development environment (IDE). In Chapter 22 we discuss how the nature of package maintenance varies over the lifecycle of a package. Here we’ll discuss the use of version control and continuous integration.

In this last part of the book, we zoom back out to consider development practices that can make you more productive and raise the quality of your work. This chapter should be readable but is currently undergoing final polishing. You are reading the work-in-progress second edition of R Packages.

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