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+# Your first package!
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+This workshop shows you how to make version controlled package linked to a remote repository on GitHub using the devtools approach.
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+## Learning Objectives
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+At the end of this module the successful learner will be able to:
+-  create a simple version controlled package
+-  explain the key components of a minimal package
+-  use the package interactively with load_all()
+-  link a local version controlled package to a remote repository on GitHub
+-  use check() to execute R CMD check
+-  populate a DESCRIPTION and LICENSE files
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+## Prerequisites
+You need to have:
+-  "[Packages in a nutshell](http://bit.ly/pkg-dev-1)" or equivalent experience
+-  "[Setting up your system](http://bit.ly/pkg-dev-2)" or equivalent experience
+-  the packages devtools, roxygen2, testthat and knitr installed
+-  R build toolchain: Rtools(windows) or XCode (mac) or r-base-dev