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Adding more tips for good script documentation and organization in "Intro to R"

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Hello R ecology lesson maintainers! I have a small suggestion for the Intro to R lesson which you may take or leave as you see fit :) That is, I...

jaxinewolfe

updating first ggplot lesson

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Here is a first shot at updating the `ggplot2` first lesson. I found the Netlify link so I should be able to see if things are rendering correctly, particularly the...

MCMaurer

Term 'tbl_df' is used without explanation

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In the [Manipulating data episode](https://datacarpentry.org/R-ecology-lesson/03-dplyr.html) it says > You may also have noticed that the output from these calls doesn’t run off the screen anymore. It’s one of the advantages...

maneesha

Repetition in "Getting set up"

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I found that introduction to the concepts "Working Directory" and “Projects” are repeating in the sections **Getting setup** and **Working directory** in the episode 00-before-we-start.Rmd. I was wondering if these...

jkkishore85

See if styler could be used to automatically format content (and PRs)

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https://github.com/r-lib/styler it would reduce nitpicking on contributions while maintaining consistent formatting across the lesson

fmichonneau

section on factors may be confusing

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I'm a member of The Carpentries staff and I'm submitting this issue on behalf of another member of the community. In most cases I won't be able to follow up...

Talishask

Introduce print() fun and comment char earlier

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[Submitted by email] 1. Three ways to force R to print the value: using parentheses; typing the object name; using print() function. The function print() was not introduced in this...

ErinBecker

My suggestion: Before introducing the function `read_csv()` and get the students hands-on code with reading data, let them use the "Import dataset" UI functionality in Rstudio. The rationale: - Many...

DaniMori

Clarify assignment vs. not in the filter/select section of the lesson

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Hi maintainers, One thing I love about this lesson is how it builds up to pipes by showing two alternatives: intermediate steps and nested functions. That's a great way to...

kaijagahm

The lesson says ``` Data files for the lesson are available and can be downloaded manually here: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1314459 ``` and later instruct the learners to run ``` download.file(url="https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/2292169", destfile =...

rgaiacs