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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

...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

goodpractice and lintr both provide you with useful static analyses of your package.

Workflow automation tools for package developers

Maëlle Salmon

...catch up on these, and many more highlights