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Checking your package name

You'll now take on the role of a helpful coworker assisting your colleague with a task. Your colleague needs to work with the available package to perform several checks related to package names. You will guide them through the process of checking the validity of a given package name, verifying the availability of the name on CRAN, and analyzing the sentiment of the name.

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This exercise is part of the course

Developing R Packages

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Exercise instructions

  • Perform checks for the package name gg_plot2, then review the output to see if it satisfies CRAN naming standards.
  • Perform checks for the package name unitConverter, then review the output to see if the name is available on CRAN.
  • Perform checks for the package name terrible, then review the output to check the sentiment for the name.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Check if gg_plot2 meets CRAN naming standards
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# Check if unitConverter is available on CRAN
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# Check sentiment of terrible
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