As package developers, we often focus on custom functions, their documentation, and unit testing. To provide a more complete user experience, it can be helpful to include data within the package. Here’s everything you need to know! If you’re not familiar with unit testing, we recommend reading our article on the subject: : https://rtask.thinkr.fr/expectations-verified-dive-into-the-world-of-unit-tests-with-expect_/ Short on time? Here’s the gist ...

Unit tests are essential in the development of an R package. They ensure that your functions work as expected while protecting you from regressions when you improve or modify your code. Thanks to the {testthat} package, writing and automating tests in R becomes simple and intuitive. At the core of this approach are the expect_*() functions, which play a central ...

A lot of cleanups, new features, and bug fixes for this new version of ‘gitlabr’. You will find brand-new CI/CD templates and functions to manage GitLab groups from R. Brand new gitlab-ci with ‘pak’, ready to use The template for checking R packages uses {pak} for dependency management. You will no longer have issues with missing system dependencies. You should ...

You think that some of the components of {shiny} are not very functional or downright austere? Are you looking to implement some feature in your app but it is not available in the {shiny} toolbox? Take a look at JavaScript! JavaScript is a very popular programming language that is often used to add features to web pages. With HTML and ...

Context Whether during the (training sessions) I can provide or the (coaching) sessions I can conduct, there is often a moment when I go on a long rant about the power and usefulness of caching. How awesome it is, not so complicated to set up, and super interesting. The last time I gave a presentation was to talk about ({targets}), ...

We’ve all felt it, that little wave of shiver through our skin as we watch the check of our newest commit running, thinking “Where could this possibly go wrong?”. And suddenly, the three little redeeming ticks 0 errors ✔ | 0 warnings ✔ | 0 notes ✔ Allelhuia! 🎉 We git commit the whole thing, we git push proudly our ...

{fusen} now relies on {lightparser} to detect the different parts of a Rmd or a Qmd file before inflating your flat file as a R package. Before the release on CRAN, I need you to test the development version and tell me if there are any edge cases with your flat files. TL;DR Please try the pre-release version of {fusen} ...

You’ve put together a great package that you’re proud of and you’d like to share it with the R community? Maybe even submit it to CRAN? Before you do that, you know that a few checks are recommended… yes you do! but devtools::check() returns 7 warnings, 12 notes and 200 unclear lines so…. So you’ve come to the right place! ...

No more amnesia for {fusen}! With v0.5, it now has “memory”, allowing you to inflate all your flat files simultaneously. The aim of this latest version of {fusen} is to provide an ever smoother package development experience, for both novice and experiences users. {fusen} continues to make life easier for package creators. One of the main changes in this new ...

{attachment} v0.4.0 stores your parameters in a configuration file for an easier use during your package development: run att_amend_desc() from anywhere, it will re-use your last set of parameters.  This comes with some breaking changes for a better experience.   The goal of attachment is to help to deal with package dependencies during package development. It also gives useful tools ...

One aim of our open-source packages at ThinkR is to make our development workflows easier. {attachment} and {fusen} are developed maintained to help packages development and maintenance. Inception… If they help us every day, they can probably help you as well! In this blog post, I present the lastest changes of these two packages. If you want to know how ...

If you think {fusen} is not for you because you’ve been building R packages your entire life without it, it’s time to give it a try! Refer to the new tips and tricks in the dedicated vignette in case you feel you need additional functionalities: chances are I already implemented them… Go back to the previous blog post to know ...

{fusen} gets some maturity! v0.3 is a big rebranding for a more fluid experience, from beginners to advanced developers. Creating a fully documented and tested package has never been so easy and enjoyable. Experience “Rmd first” to the fullest. At first, I imagined {fusen} to help beginners start building R packages. Following the ‘Rmd first’ method, I am convinced that ...

A new version of {attachment} is available on CRAN. Get dependencies installed from GitHub, GitLab, … and add the link to the ‘Remotes’ field in the DESCRIPTION file of your package. install.packages(“attachment”) While waiting for CRAN release, you can install from GitHub: remotes::install_github(“ThinkR-open/[email protected]”) {attachment} helps you deal with dependencies during your package development. All packages used in your code needs ...

You regularly create projects on GitLab with a common skeleton, you want to retrieve the list of GitLab issues to create a report, you are looking for batch modifications of your projects? Use the GitLab API from your preferred programming language R. Communicate with GitLab API from R Here is a small example as issued from the {gitlabr} Readme on ...

With first version of {fusen} 0.2.4 now available on CRAN, you do not have any excuses not to try it in your daily workflows. install.packages(“fusen”) Add new documented and tested functionalities in an existing package If you already develop packages, {fusen} is for you. Developing a package requires to write some code and examples in multiple places: “R/”, “tests/”, “vignettes/”. ...