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develcoder

develcoder is an R package containing code and templates to develop R packages. It is based on the book R packages by Wickham and Bryan and heavily uses the R packages devtools, usethis, and tinytest.

Structure

Folder ‘vignettes’ contains the following vignettes:

Folder ‘inst/templates’ contains the following templates (in the installed package these are in folder ‘develcoder/templates’):

  • README_template.Rmd for a README.Rmd file.
  • check-no-suggests.yaml for a GitHub Actions workflow checking if the package code can be run if the suggested packages are not installed
  • check-standard.yaml for a GitHub Actions workflow
  • pkgdown.yaml for a GitHub Actions workflow to update the package website

To use these files, put the README.Rmd file in the top-level package folder. The ‘yaml’ files should be put in folder <pkg>\.github\workflows (see section Automate checks from the vignette Package setup and section Use GitHub Actions from the vignette Package development for details).

Installation

Visit the develcoder website to explore the package, or install develcoder from GitHub using the following R code:

if(!requireNamespace("remotes")) {
   install.packages(pkgs = "remotes")
}
remotes::install_github(repo = "JesseAlderliesten/develcoder",
                        upgrade = FALSE, build_vignettes = TRUE, lib = NULL)

For more information about installing and configuring R, see my package checkrpkgs.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.

Citation 

To cite package 'develcoder' in publications use:

  Alderliesten J (2026). _develcoder: Code and Templates to Develop R
  Packages_. R package version 0.18.1,
  <https://github.com/JesseAlderliesten/develcoder>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {develcoder: Code and Templates to Develop R Packages},
    author = {Jesse Alderliesten},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.18.1},
    url = {https://github.com/JesseAlderliesten/develcoder},
  }

Contact

Please open a GitHub issue if you have suggestions to improve develcoder.

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