R packages are actually really simple, and with the right tools it should be easier to use the package structure than not.

Package development in R can feel intimidating, but devtools does every thing it can to make it as welcoming as possible.

Just forward me the email and your address, and Ill get a card in the mail.

Not everyone agrees with these opinions, and they are by no means perfect, but they have evolved during the process of writing over 30 R packages.

Im always happy to hear about what doesnt work for you, and any places where devtools gets in your way.

Either send an email to the rdevtools mailing list or file an issue.

If you dont specify a path, devtools will look in the current working directory - this is recommend practice.

During development you usually want to access all functions so loadall() ignores the package NAMESPACE.

Reloading a package is not guaranteed to work: see the documentation to unload() for caveats.

You can can use it to build a binary version of your package.

This is useful because example checking is the last step of R CMD check.

This is useful to avoid clobbering the existing versions of CRAN packages that you need for other tasks.

Calling devmode() again will turn development mode off, and return you to your default library setup.

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