something happened to the README

[jenrichmond]

?? ideas, it was probably my fault

[softloud]

Am almost certain this was me 😒

Every time I tried to knit it, it came out in distill format.

Could you try knitting?

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[jenrichmond]

i opened README.Rmd and knitted it and it looked ok, but then I push and it is not ok

[jenrichmond]

when I knit it is fine, except for the weird heading README.utf8.md

[softloud]

Yes! Me, too. ;pensive:

:confounded: what can we do to fix?

:thinking: will try nuking it on my fork - as in cp the text into file and deleting it.

Nuke the :bug: from orbit. Only way to be sure.

(Sidenote, ping @djnavarro, so I found this for this message. This makes working the workshop itself fun, for me. It's meritget(what if _ for italics? * didn't work). It's an incentive to action this thing for the workshop. Why did I put my hand up for this, other than the pleasure of your company? I can't justify things that are just for fun with supervisors spending meetings telling me papers are important. So, how do I justify this to myself? More importantly, to everyone else? I need to learn how to collaborate via github, and I need people with whom it's safe to fumble around with. Part of my phd thesis is talking about this type of science; I need to learn to collaborate to unpack how I think about the analogy of packages as mathematical theorems, tests as proofs. As this is something I must learn for doctorate, a little crash course via this project is just the ticket. So that's great, that's the extrinsic motivation. But it's really easy to think, I'll do this tomorrow, unless there's some immediate objective that can be fulfilled; a meritget. Putting cute emoji in my git & github messages reminds me how much I'm getting out of it. I know. I've had a long day of going through a big datasci project; now I'm metametameta. Anyway, once I hit send, I will have the pleasure of surfing over to github to see how/if my email response rendered with cute emoji. But I also outlined what I would do next. So I may as well do that now. I find that most things about mathematical science are so difficult they require meritget. There's disproportionately more fountain pen users in the mathematical community than in the general public. For me, a lot of mathematics is about thinking about a problem and then grinding hard on definitions until solving the problem makes sense. Definition first; read the function and package documentation, READMEs are a goldmine. 'K of to try the whole nuke from orbit thing.)

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when I knit it is fine, except for the weird heading README.utf8.md

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[softloud]

Alrighty, deleted the file, which took an inordinate amount of tweeting :roll_eyes:. And am, finally, mercifully tired. I am having some serious problems with insomnia lately. So, I'll leave a note here of where I got up to.

I cloned your repo - rather than try to figure out how to sync my own fork :mountain: and deleted the file. I used usethis:: to make a new README and tried to knit.

:pensive: keeps tellling me I don't have distill:: installed - and I thought, good, right? Then it won't interfere. So, here's a piece of minutiae I learnt from this experience. The README won't knit, even though it looks like a perfectly innocuous .Rmd file, when the site's package isn't installed. Next term we need to neologise @jenrichmond @djnavarro is for when you know trying to understand why some seemingly absurd computational idiosyncrasy is going to be :mountain: :crying_cat_face:. So I will chalk the why of this to vagaries of compsci.

Meanwhile. This does not solve our problem. But I am finally :sleeping:, so I will take another look tomorrow. :croissant: