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Remove lubridate from list of packages to install during setup

Open tobyhodges opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

As pointed out my @mikemahoney218 in #879, lubridate is now part of the combined tidyverse package. In the lesson setup instructions, we state that it should be installed alongside tidyverse:

install.packages(c("tidyverse", "lubridate", "ratdat"))

Although I doubt the redundancy is doing much harm, it seems that this can be simplified to include only tidyverse and ratdat

tobyhodges avatar Jul 10 '24 11:07 tobyhodges

@tobyhodges I will work on this on Friday

doujouDC avatar Aug 20 '24 17:08 doujouDC

@tobyhodges would you recommend that I simply remove lubridate or provide some context about this now being part of the tidyverse. Wickham mentions this "Lubridate is part of core tidyverse, but it also exists as a standalone package" in R4DS

doujouDC avatar Sep 20 '24 20:09 doujouDC

I think it can be safely removed altogether. The primary audience for the setup instructions is novice learners who just want to get everything ready for a workshop, and who may not have a mental model yet for packages, the tidyverse etc. As such, Beyond the fundamental steps that should be taken to prepare for the workshop, any discussion would be unnecessary IMO, perhaps even counterproductive.

tobyhodges avatar Sep 23 '24 09:09 tobyhodges