Thinking Beyond Scripts: Build an R Package from the Ground Up

In this meeting speaker Toni Price demonstrates how to build a simple R package (the easy way).
Thu 22 May, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm BST
Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street • Online via Microsoft Teams

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Talk: Thinking Beyond Scripts: Build an R Package from the Ground Up

Imagine your R code as a polished, reusable tool that you can share with colleagues, collaborators or the entire R community. In this talk you’ll learn how to create a fully functional, tested and documented R package step-by-step the easy way with devtools, usethis, testthat and roxygen2 in RStudio. Throw in a documentation website built with pkgdown and advice from goodpractice to streamline your workflow – and take your R skills to the next level!

Speaker: Toni Price
Toni is a Research Software Engineer at the University of Manchester. With a background in Statistics, she started her career in industry as a software developer, later completing a PhD which introduced her to R (it soon became her language of choice). She now focuses on writing robust, maintainable code and has a special interest in reproducible research.