DIY R package workshop - Part 3

Workshop materials for implementing your {pkgdown} for your R package 📦👩‍💻

Hello! Welcome! 👋

For this interactive workshop, we will be creating a website 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
• Completed the second 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_pkgdown/

Overview of workshop:

Interactive coding:

• The best things come as {pkgdown} pages 🎁
• Storage is a little different 🗃 -Set & forget it with GitHub Actions ⏲
• Updating your package documentation 📝
• Got Articles? 📚
• Customising your website ✨🎨
• Nifty Navbars 🗺
• Ordering your Articles menu 🗂
• Ordering your Reference Section 🗂

Additional resources

If you want to give your package something extra:

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