This free interactive course covers the basics of R. To create your own packages look at Writing R Extensions (the definitive guide), Leisch's Creating R Packages: A Tutorial, and Rossi's Making R packages Under Windows: A Tutorial.

Use the library( package ) function within R to load it for use in the session.

At the command prompt, install it using.

Download the package of interest as a compressed file.

Then use the library( package ) function to load it for use.

Choose Install Packages from the Packages menu.

(You need to do this once in each session, unless you customize your environment to automatically load it each time.)

To use the package, invoke the library( package ) command to load it into the current session.

Download and install a package (you only need to do this once).

A complete list of contributed packages is available from CRAN. You can expand the types of analyses you do be adding other packages. Search() # see packages currently loaded Adding Packages Youll need to create a libarrow directory inside the R package directory and unzip the zip file containing the compiled libarrow binary files into it. Once installed, they have to be loaded into the session to be used. Others are available for download and installation.

Your functions are only available once you run the function declaration. The directory where packages are stored is called the library. Once an R package is loaded, you have immediate access to all of the package function.

Packages are collections of R functions, data, and compiled code in a well-defined format.

Create your own r package