Using devtools to host code from GitHub

Good practice in developing code means keeping it in some sort of version control system. One popular system among many is Git and the Git-sharing website GitHub. In this recipe, we'll look at using the usethis package to add some useful non-code files that help to describe how another user can reuse our code and the current state of its development and adding a mechanism to make sure the downstream user has the other packages that yours depends on. We'll look at how to then send the package to GitHub and how it can be installed directly from there.

Getting ready

We will need the usethis and devtools packages.

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