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R CMD check or devtools::check\(\) will check your package for adherence to some standards (e.g., what folders can there be) and run the tests and examples. It’s a useful command to run even if your package isn’t intended to go on CRAN.

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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...cache.vars If the code chunk you want to cache creates many objects, but you only want to save a few of them, you can use knitr’s cache.vars chunk option. Simply give it a character vector of the objects’ names that you want to save.

Reproducible Research With R and RStudio

Christopher Gandrud

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