Packaging with R

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Current status

Source here.

Activity log

May 2023

• Update the materials to use the new Carpentries Workbench.

April 2022

• Transfer the materials to the Carpentries Incubator.

March 2022

22-24 March, pilot online lesson at the Netherlands eScience Center.

Late autumn sprint

6-10 December 2021. Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez, Lieke de Boer - Write draft episode about vignettes - Start reviewing the whole course. - Polished several minor issues. - We have a beta!

Early autumn sprint

20-23 September 2021. Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez, Mateusz Kuzak - Write 2 draft episodes - Dependencies - Data - Strategic planning with Mateusz

Summer sprint

9-13 August 2021. Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez, Lieke de Boer

• Write 6 draft episodes
  • Introduction
  • Accessing packages
  • Getting started
  • Writing our own functions
  • Testing
  • Documenting your package
• Include figures and animations generated with Peek
• Start merging contents into main branch
  • The one chapter - one branch approach proved to not be a good idea
• Adapt initial plans to challenges discovered while writing and trying
• Use README for keeping members updated
  • Draw a Current Status diagram
  • Add a what to do next section
  • Add this Activity log
• Add _meta files
  • And create a related pull request in next-lesson-template.

Kick-off 2021

31 May - 4 June 2021. Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez, Barbara Vreede, Mateusz Kuzak

• Brainstorm and plan the tentative structure
• Read the materials

Contributing

We welcome all contributions to improve the lesson! Maintainers will do their best to help you if you have any questions, concerns, or experience any difficulties along the way.

We'd like to ask you to familiarize yourself with our Contribution Guide and have a look at the more detailed guidelines on proper formatting, ways to render the lesson locally, and even how to write new episodes.

Please see the current list of issues for ideas for contributing to this repository. For making your contribution, we use the GitHub flow, which is nicely explained in the chapter Contributing to a Project in Pro Git by Scott Chacon. Look for the tag . This indicates that the maintainers will welcome a pull request fixing this issue.

Maintainer(s)

Current maintainers of this lesson are

• Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez @PabRod
• Lieke de Boer @liekelotte
• Michael Milton @multimeric
• Sven van der Burg @svenvanderburg

Authors

A list of contributors to the lesson can be found in AUTHORS

Citation

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