OUCRU R training course 2025

The GitHub repository for the OUCRU R training course in 2025

Materials for the course in their quarto format are stored here

For learners

The course main webpage is here: https://oucru-modelling.github.io/R-training-2025/

For instructors

• Make sure you are using renv for R package version control
  • Always start your session with renv::restore()
  • Before commit and push, run renv::snapshot()
• Locations:
  • Slides go into slides/
    • Slides should have format: revealjs in the YAML headers
  • Handouts go into handouts/
    • Handouts should have format: html in the YAML headers (or pdf if you wish)
  • Custom CSS rules go into styles.css
    • Append your own CSS rules here
• Test locally with
  • quarto preview: live preview and continuously render on save
  • quarto render: one-time render; resulting main page is _render/index.html
• Publish by:
  • simply push your commits to the main branch, GitHub Actions should handle the rendering and publishing (desired)
  • quarto publish gh-pages (undesired)
• Project metadata is in _quarto.yml. You can control the metadata in your specific .qmd files with its YAML header, which will override the project metadata.