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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

...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

* covr::package\_coverage\(\) calculates test coverage for your package. Having a good coverage also means R CMD check is more informative, since it means it’s testing your code. 😉 covr::package\_coverage\(\) can also provide you with the code coverage of the vignettes and examples!

Workflow automation tools for package developers

Maëlle Salmon

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