CONTRIBUTING.md

How to contribute

Government employees, public and members of the private sector are encouraged to contribute to the repository by forking and submitting a pull request.

Pull requests will be evaluated by the repository guardians on a schedule and if deemed beneficial will be committed to the master.

All contributors retain the original copyright to their stuff, but by contributing to this project, you grant a world-wide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to all users under the terms of the license under which this project is distributed.

Fixing typos

You can fix typos, spelling mistakes, or grammatical errors in the documentation directly using the GitHub web interface, as long as the changes are made in the source file. This generally means you'll need to edit roxygen2 comments in an .R, not a .Rd file. You can find the .R file that generates the .Rd by reading the comment in the first line.

Bigger changes

If you want to make a bigger change, it's a good idea to first file an issue and make sure someone from the team agrees that it’s needed. If you’ve found a bug, please file an issue that illustrates the bug with a minimal reprex (this will also help you write a unit test, if needed).

Pull request process

• Fork the package and clone onto your computer. If you haven't done this before, we recommend using usethis::create_from_github("", fork = TRUE).

• Install all development dependences with devtools::install_dev_deps(), and then make sure the package passes R CMD check by running devtools::check(). If R CMD check doesn't pass cleanly, it's a good idea to ask for help before continuing.

• Create a Git branch for your pull request (PR). We recommend using usethis::pr_init("brief-description-of-change").

• Make your changes, commit to git, and then create a PR by running usethis::pr_push(), and following the prompts in your browser. The title of your PR should briefly describe the change. The body of your PR should contain Fixes #issue-number.

• Begin commit or merge messages with - to indicate user facing changes that should be included in NEWS.md. We will use fledge to automatically generate the NEWS.md file.

Code style

• New code should follow the tidyverse style guide. You can use the styler package to apply these styles, but please don't restyle code that has nothing to do with your PR.

• We use roxygen2, with Markdown syntax, for documentation.

• We use testthat for unit tests. Contributions with test cases included are easier to accept.

Code of Conduct

Please note that the ssdtools project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project you agree to abide by its terms.