Package names and authors
This lesson is called Package names and authors, part of the Package Development with R course. This lesson is called Package names and authors, part of the Package Development with R course.
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Your Turn
Working in the exercises.Rmd file:
Add a new author to avalanchr using desc::desc_add_author(). Set given to “Barret”, family to “Wallace”, and role to “aut”.
In DESCRIPTION, change the title to “Tools for the Avalanche Data Science Team”
Change the Description field to “A set of tools to use within the Avalance Data Science team. This package contains functions for connecting to databases, R markdown templates, ggplot2 themes, and more.”
Run use_tidy_description() to clean up the file.
Learn More
The best place to learn more about these packages is the Metadata chapter of the R Packages book.
The Naming Things blog post mentioned is here.
And you can learn more about the available package on GitHub.
The desc pacakge can be found here.
Have any questions? Put them below and we will help you out!
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Kirstin O'Dell • November 18, 2022
I got this error message when installing avalanchr: I'm using version 2022.07.1 build 554 of RStudio
Warning in install.packages : package ‘avalanchr’ is not available for this version of R
A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere, see the ideas at https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages
Rahul Sharma • March 26, 2025
Possibly not being on CRAN raises this error message, please try
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("malcolmbarrett/avalanchr")