Add a one-liner meta-function

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rrtools: Tools for Writing Reproducible Research in R

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Add a one-liner meta-function #64

Closed benmarwick closed 5 years ago

benmarwick commented 6 years ago

I had some feedback from @clanfear that it would be useful to have a single function that combines most of the steps. Like a meta-function. We could have 2-3 main options, e.g.

a very basic, lightweight compendium suitable for student assignments,
a more elaborate one, and then
the kitchen sink with CI and docker for example.

I think this meta-function could be useful in workshop lessons where we don't have time to review every step in detail, but where we want to give a quick taste of how to do reproducibile research easily.

What do you think?

MartinHinz commented 6 years ago

I think we had some discussions about that already. There were some opponents to that meta-function, I would like to remember you. But personally I very much see (more than) a good use case for that.

nevrome commented 6 years ago

A wizard for a wizard collection...

I think we should create such a function to guide the user through the complete process. And also an RStudio-Addin.

nevrome commented 6 years ago

A prototype:

peek 2018-06-20 21-22

benmarwick commented 6 years ago

Wow, that add-in is great!

nevrome commented 6 years ago

Great that you found the time to implement the metafunction!

Maybe we could keep this issue still open for some time: I'm working on this addin idea -- admittedly very slowly.

nevrome commented 6 years ago

This thing became to complex. I decided to create an extra package for it: https://github.com/nevrome/rrtools.addin

Let's see if an addin like this turns out to be useful. I guess it's aimed at very new users.

benmarwick commented 5 years ago

We now have this in create_compendium("pkgname")