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(re)moving the Accessing episode? #116
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The episode on Accessing Packages navigates in my opinion between teaching well known concepts (e.g. installing packages from CRAN and using library() to attach a package to the workspace) and addressing related but out of scope things like how to install a package from GitHub.
There is one crucial part, which is that functions should be called with their full name packagename::functionname() when used inside another package.
At the moment, this key information is buried.
I propose:
- Moving the information on function names to the Functions episode
- Moving the entire chapter to the back of the lesson, and adding some advice on how to distribute a package (i.e. hosting on GitHub; this can be done with drag and drop as well, so Git remains out of scope)
- OR, remove the chapter altogether.
@liekelotte @PabRod @n400peanuts happy to hear your thoughts!
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PabRod commentedon Sep 13, 2023
My thoughts, per point:
Hope it helps!
multimeric commentedon May 17, 2024
I agree with this. The next time I run this course I intend to cut this section because I would rather have spent more time on vignettes than rehash these basics.
I have one other suggestion though, which is simply to make this episode optional. I don't mind actually keeping it as the second episode, because it's so fundamental. But it would make it more obvious to instructors that it's an easy skip.
PabRod commentedon May 17, 2024
All options sound like reasonable ideas. I fully trust your choice, @multimeric.