It's a Great Time to be an R Package Developer!

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R Packages gets a second edition and a practical claim: package development is easier and faster now — over 19,000 packages on CRAN (Mar 2023) and a one‑minute path to a usable site. Concrete tools and flows: create a package quickly, use pkgdown + GitHub Actions to build and publish a website automatically, use devtools::load_all for tight iteration, and adopt testthat plus scoped state handling (withr patterns), code coverage and a release checklist (use_release_issue) to keep packages healthy.

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1. 0:00Introduction to R Packages
2. 2:50Modern package workflow
3. 5:08Creating package websites
4. 7:53New book content overview
5. 9:10From script to package
6. 12:24Advanced testing strategies
7. 16:24Long-term package maintenance

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