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Data Analysis and Visualization in R for Ecologists
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Introduce the script document earlier in the episode #874

Closed froggydame22 closed 4 months ago

froggydame22 commented 1 year ago

How could the content be improved?

During my Carpentries instruction demo, a couple of us picked the 'Introduction to R' episode in the Data Analysis and Visualisation in R for Ecologists and one of the things that came up during our teaching reflections was that it would be more intuitive for learners to be introduced to the R script at the very beginning of the episode rather than after the part about creating objects in R. It messes with the flow of teaching to take a step back and talk about creating and saving a script and then going back to talk about functions.

Which part of the content does your suggestion apply to?

https://datacarpentry.org/R-ecology-lesson/01-intro-to-r.html, Intro to r episode

tobyhodges commented 4 months ago

Thanks @froggydame22 for opening this issue. The lesson underwent a major update and reorganisation when https://github.com/datacarpentry/R-ecology-lesson/pull/887 was merged. As your suggestion relates to content in a version of the lesson before that update took place, I will close it. Please open a new issue if you have suggestions for how the new content could be improved.