DIY R package workshop - Part 2

Workshop materials for implementing continuous Integration with GitHub Action for your R package 📦👩‍💻

Hello! Welcome! 👋

For this interactive workshop, we will be implementing GitHub Actions for your R package together 🐋

Participants should have the following ready for the workshop

• The most recent version of R (≥ 4.1) and RStudio (≥1.4) installed
• The following package(s) and their dependencies installed: devtools, testthat, knitr
• The most recent version of git installed
• Have a Github account
• Basic usage of git *recommended
• Completed the first part of this workshop series
• Basic understanding of a yaml file *optional!

For the workshop, we will be working from main_functions.Rmd

This file is also neatly rendered here so its easier to read and to copy and paste code: https://fontikar.github.io/DIY_Rpkg_GHA/

Meta data

I have included my slides in slides/

Read more about R packages, I recommend the 2nd Edition of The R packages book by Hadley Wickham and Jenny Byran

Overview of workshop:

1. What is continuous integration [slides]
2. Interactive coding

• Git set go!!! 🏁
• Our first GitHub Action! 💥
• Different OS and R versions 📚
• Which workflows for you? 🤔
• Cover your bases 🪤

Additional resources

If you want to give your package something extra:

• Badges in your README
• Hexsticker in your README and to print 😍
• Pkgdown website