The blog post walks users to all necessary steps on how to write a package in R. It features a comprehensive overview from essentially starting points, over best practices to novel advancements and add-ons to not only ensure that your package runs smoothly but also that it gets recognized and used by others. The post is build up around the development of our own package – overviewR – and can easily be adjusted and adapted to one’s own package idea. Start exploring and get involved in writing an R package!