R Package Development in Positron Workshop
Workshop materials and recording from my January 15 2026 "R Package Development in Positron" workshop for Ukraine
Dariia Mykhailyshyna is a postdoc at Kyiv School of economics, and runs the popular Workshops for Ukraine series. She’s held hundreds of data science workshops raising over 100,000 EUR in support of Ukraine and its citizens. Check out the workshop page for details on past and future workshops, or to propose teaching one yourself.
Back in January I gave a 2-hour workshop on R Package Development in Positron, covering package development with devtools, usethis, covr, GitHub actions, pkgdown, writing functions, documentation, exported/installed package data, programming with dplyr, and writing unit tests with testthat and lots of help from Claude via Positron Assistant.
All the materials are online, and the workshop recording is below.
Rendered pkgdown website: https://stephenturner.github.io/rpkgdemo/
Full tutorial: https://stephenturner.github.io/rpkgdemo/articles/rpkgdemo
Source code for the built package: https://github.com/stephenturner/rpkgdemo
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Note that these posts from 2025 and 2024 are showing their age. The 2024 post on R package development in Positron I wrote up only weeks after Positron was released a preview/alpha version of Positron. Much has improved, notably the integration of coding assistants and copilots that weren’t available when Positron first launched.