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goodpractice and lintr both provide you with useful static analyses of your package.
Workflow automation tools for package developers
Maëlle Salmon
Argument names to functions should be descriptive and well documented. Arguments should generally have default values. Check arguments against a validity check.
Bioconductor - Package Guidelines
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Environment variables, found via Sys.getenv() rather than getOption(), are often used for storing secrets (like GITHUB_PAT for the gh package) or the path to secrets on disk (like TWITTER_PAT for rtweet), or not secrets (e.g. the browser to use for chromote).
Persistent Config and Data for R Packages - R-Hub Blog
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