RRP instruction updates

sjspielman commented 2 months ago

Closes #197 Closes #198

This PR tackles two small-ish issues:

I updated installation instructions to include installing Pandoc.

I direct Mac users to install via GUI installer, and Windows users to install on WSL 2 with apt-get. It should not be needed for Windows proper, since this pertains to knitting via command line.
(I'm actually not 100% sure that Mac users need it standalone, but it can't hurt!)

I added a brief section to the Windows installation instructions to turn off line endings
I added an small section to the instructor notes reminding future us of some of the foibles we encountered so we can more easily address them should they arise again

sjspielman commented 2 months ago

do we want to recommend Posix line endings? I can't decide, but it probably depends on behavior that I don't quite know.

miscellaneously noting some backstory here: https://github.com/r-lib/usethis/pull/1072

I'm don't think Posix would cause a problem necessarily? Windows code should still run on Windows, right?

sjspielman commented 2 months ago

I've updated instructions for line endings as discussed, let me know how it looks! Note this parallel PR https://github.com/AlexsLemonade/rrp-workshop-exercises/pull/20

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