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Using roxygen2 is generally handy, starting with your no longer needing to edit the NAMESPACE by hand. If your package doesn’t use roxygen2 yet, you could use Rd2roxygen to convert the documentation.
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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\(\)).
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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.
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Maëlle Salmon
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