Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series
Maintaining R
Cole Beck
Computer Systems Analyst III, Department of Biostatistics
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Package management may be the most important aspect of maintaining your R environment. Package updates present a challenge to ensure R scripts continue to work as expected. We'll discuss good practice, and a potential solution to project isolation with the packrat package. Other topics include utilizing Rprofile for customizing your environment, some recent additions to Hmisc, and the integration of LaTeX with R.