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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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You can extract tables from this PDF using the aptly-named extract_tables function, like this: # default call with no parameters changed matrix_results <- extract_tables(site) # get back the tables as data frames, keeping their headers df_results <- extract_tables(site, output = "data.frame", header = TRUE)

Getting Data From PDFs the Easy Way With R - Open Source Automation

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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

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