This page described a basic installation for R. To develop in R, you need three further packages:
usethis automates common tasks in setting up an R package.devtools contains tools for developing, testing and releasing r packages.dsLite mimics the behaviour of a remote DataSHIELD server, and speeds up the development cycle.install.packages(c("usethis", "devtools", "DSLite"))
library(DSLite)
library(devtools)
library(usethis)