Make your first R open source project contribution with git, forks, and PRs
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Git is a foundational tool for version control in open source collaboration, but contributing to a project involves more than just the basics.
In this workshop, you will get a brief introduction to Git fundamentals before diving into the workflows used in open source. Contributing as a non-collaborator adds an extra layer of complexity, your work needs to be reviewed, which means understanding pull requests, branching strategies, and working across forks.
We will start with creating branches and pull requests within your own repositories, then extend these concepts to contributing to external projects using forks. Along the way, you will learn how tools like the {usethis} R package can simplify and streamline this process.
By the end of the workshop, you will be able to fork a repository, make changes in a local branch, and submit a pull request to the original project for maintainer review.
Speaker
Daniel Chen, Developer Relations, Posit, PBC, and lecturer at The University of British Columbia in the Statistics Department and Master’s of Data Science program
Daniel has been teaching for the Carpentries, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization teaching foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide, since 2014. He has an MPH in Epidemiology and is currently studying data science education in biomedical sciences for his PhD. He is an active member in the R, Python, and Carpentries communities and is always looking to improve how he teaches programming skills.
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The R Adoption Series
This is a series of webinars focused on the adoption of R. Each session will include a case study and often include panels or discussions to enable those starting their journey to ask questions.
R Consortium will keep this page updated with information on future webinars in the R Adoption series. If there is some information that you are looking for specifically and you don’t see it here, feel free to email us at info@r-consortium.org.