We could call it something other than report here if we liked. We now invoke the create() function to create a package called “basictemplate” in the Console.ĭir.create('basictemplate/inst/rmarkdown/templates/report/skeleton',

This will install a package of tools that makes creating packages simple. If you don’t have it installed already, make sure to run install.packages('devtools') in your Console. We can see this by entering getwd() in the Console. We see here that my home directory is the current working directory denoted by the ~/. It’s important to keep track of where you keep files in R via this working directory and this is commonly a big struggle that students have. If you click the right arrow next to Console it will show your Current Working Directory in the Files tab in the bottom right pane. If we look down at the Console in the left pane, we can see what our current working directory is. The creation of an R Markdown template as the only thing residing in a package is an even easier task. The developers of RStudio have made creating R packages quite easy.

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