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A repository for the Mini-Bird Breeding Survey data
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Proposal: Split mbbs package into processing and data packages #88

Open bsaul opened 2 months ago

bsaul commented 2 months ago

Currently, the mbbs package is both a package containing functions for producing data file and a package of the data. This means, for one, the package that users might import for the data has a bunch of stuff and dependencies they don't need. For example, I shouldn't need to have beepr, readxl, dplyr, and so on installed just to load the mbbs data files.

I propose that we keep the mbbs package as is, and then have a compilation step that produces another package mbbs-data (?) that simply contains data files.

bsaul commented 2 months ago

This is related to #43.

IJBG commented 2 months ago

I agree!

bsaul commented 2 months ago

Another approach that we might consider (either in lieu of this proposal or in conjunction with) is to publish a website (using e.g. github pages) with the published csv files and perhaps some HTML file describing the available data and summaries/integrity checks of the data).

bsaul commented 2 months ago

Another approach that we might consider (either in lieu of this proposal or in conjunction with)

I've been thinking about this approach for the past few days, and I think I like it. I might put up a PR that outlines the skeleton of what I'm thinking.

bsaul commented 2 months ago

I might put up a PR that outlines the skeleton of what I'm thinking.

Tracking this effort in #90