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One could argue that using pkgdown is a way to improve your R package documentation for very little effort. If you only tweak one thing, please introduce grouping in the reference page.

Workflow automation tools for package developers

Maëlle Salmon

Even when having to write some things by hand like inventing new tests, usethis provides useful functions to help (e.g., create test files with usethis::use\_test\(\)).

Workflow automation tools for package developers

Maëlle Salmon

CRAN has a submission checklist, and you could either roll your own or rely on usethis::use_release_issue() creating a GitHub issue with important items. If you don’t develop your package on GitHub you could still have a look at the items for inspiration. The devtools::release() function will ask you whether you ran a spell check.

Workflow automation tools for package developers

Maëlle Salmon

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