Material for Forwards workshops

Currently we have three versions of our workshop on R package development. The links below take you to the presentation slides, which refer to online materials for the exercises and further reference. All material in this repo is CC-BY-NC-SA.

One-day course

The slides for the 1-day course are available here: https://github.com/forwards/workshops/tree/master/eRum2018. This covers

• Making code into an R package
• Collaborative coding with GitHub
• Writing a vignette or an article
• Building a package webpage
• Submitting a package to CRAN

Short tutorial course

The slides for a short tutorial (1.5-2 hours) are available here: https://github.com/forwards/workshops/tree/master/Cardiff-satRday. This covers selected material from the 1-day course:

• Creating an R package
• Developing package code
• Testing package code
• Documenting functions and the package itself
• Depending on other packages

One-hour modules series

The third version is in development and modularizes the 1 day course into 1-hour modules. The modules available are as follows:

• Packages in a nutshell (complete)
• Setting up your system (complete)
• Your first package (complete)
• Package documentation (complete)
• Git and GitHub (planned)

For more details, see https://github.com/forwards/workshops/tree/master/package-dev-modules.