Teaching Data Sharing through R Data Packages

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An instructor converts course datasets into PDX Trees and a demo jeans dataset and teaches students to build R data packages using devtools, usethis and roxygen, plus helpers like use_readme_rmd() and use_vignette(). Documentation includes README, help files and vignettes modeled on palmerpenguins. After four weeks of class work and four class periods devoted to the project, students produce packages (and hex stickers), their interpretations of plots improve markedly, and the first package takes longer than a three‑hour train ride to complete.

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1. 0:00Teaching data sharing
2. 3:19Context in data analysis
3. 5:50Context with R data packages
4. 8:02Teaching data packages
5. 11:11Documenting data in R
6. 14:47Advice on R data packages
7. 17:38Q&A

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