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+++ b/.gitignore
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 report.html
+.Rproj.user
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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+# Contributing
+
+Development is a community effort, and we welcome participation.
+
+## Code of Conduct
+
+By participating in this project, you agree to abide by the [code of conduct](https://github.com/wlandau/targets/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
+
+## Issues
+
+Anyone can submit an issue to <https://github.com/wlandau/targets-minimal/issues> or comment on an existing thread. Common reasons are to
+
+* Suggest features.
+* Report bugs.
+* Request help with difficult use cases.
+* Ask questions.
+
+Please abide by the following guidelines.
+
+* Before posting a new issue, please take a moment to search for existing similar issues in order to avoid duplication.
+* For bug reports: if you can, please install the latest GitHub version of `targets` (i.e. `remotes::install_github("wlandau/targets")`) and verify that the issue still persists.
+* Describe your issue in prose as clearly and concisely as possible. The following three-paragraph format is preferred.
+    1. State the general problem or question in 1-2 matter-of-fact high-level sentences.
+    2. Explain supporting context and details necessary to understand paragraph 1.
+    3. Suggest solutions, implementation details, or other ideas if you have them.
+* Include diagnostic details about the problem, including
+    * A [reproducible example](https://github.com/tidyverse/reprex).
+    * Session info, available through `sessionInfo()` or [`reprex(si = TRUE)`](https://github.com/tidyverse/reprex).
+    * A stack trace from `traceback()` or `rlang::trace_back()`.
+    * The [SHA-1 hash](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v1/Getting-Started-Git-Basics#Git-Has-Integrity) of the GitHub commit of `targets` currently installed. `packageDescription("targets")$GithubSHA1` shows you this.
+    
+## Development
+
+External code contributions are extremely helpful in the right circumstances. Here are the recommended steps.
+
+1. Prior to contribution, please propose your idea in a [new issue thread](https://github.com/wlandau/targets-minimal/issues) so you and the maintainer can define the intent and scope of your work.
+2. [Fork the repository](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/).
+3. Follow the [GitHub flow](https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/index.html) to create a new branch, add commits, and open a pull request.
+4. Discuss your code with the maintainer in the pull request thread.
+5. If everything looks good, the maintainer will merge your code into the project.
+
+Please also follow these additional guidelines.
+
+* Respect the architecture and reasoning of the project.
+* If possible, keep contributions small enough to easily review stanly. It is okay to split up your work into multiple pull requests.
+* Format your code according to the [tidyverse style guide](https://style.tidyverse.org/) and check your formatting with the `lint_package()` function from the [`lintr`](https://github.com/jimhester/lintr) package.
+* Describe your contribution in the project's [`NEWS.md`](https://github.com/wlandau/targets/blob/master/NEWS.md) file. Be sure to mention relevent GitHub issue numbers and your GitHub name as done in existing news entries.
+* If you feel contribution is substantial enough for official author or contributor status, please add yourself as an author in the [`DESCRIPTION](https://github.com/wlandau/targets-minimal/blob/master/DESCRIPTION) file.
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+Package: targets.minimal
+Title: Minimal Example of a Targets Pipeline
+Description: Minimal example of a data analysis project with the targets
+  R package.
+Version: 0.0.0.9000
+License: MIT + file LICENSE
+URL: https://wlandau.github.io/targets-minimal,
+  https://github.com/wlandau/targets-minimal
+BugReports: https://github.com/wlandau/targets-minimal/issues
+Authors@R: c(
+  person(
+    given = c("William", "Michael"),
+    family = "Landau",
+    role = c("aut", "cre"),
+    email = "will.landau@gmail.com",
+    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1878-3253")
+  ),
+  person(
+    family = "Eli Lilly and Company",
+    role = "cph"
+  ))
+Depends:
+  R (>= 3.5.0)
+Imports:
+  biglm (>= 0.9.2),
+  readxl (>= 1.3.1),
+  rmarkdown (>= 2.3),
+  targets,
+  tidyverse (>= 1.3.0)
+Suggests:
+  clustermq (>= 0.8.9),
+  visNetwork (>= 2.0.9)
+Remotes:
+  wlandau/targets
+Encoding: UTF-8
+Language: en-US
+Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
+RoxygenNote: 7.1.0
+VignetteBuilder: knitr
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+# targets.minimal 0.0.0.9000
+
+* First version