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First steps with Continuous Integration

Authors: Colin Gillespie & Rhian Davies Jumping Rivers

Goals

This goals is aimed at participants who want to start using continuous integration in their git workflow. By the end of the tutorial participants should:

  • Appreciate that a commit to Git can launch numerous other services
  • Be able to use travis to automatically check code and run unit tests
  • Create and securely store personal authentication tokens
  • Create a package website using pkgdown
  • Test their R package against multiple versions of R
  • Create and manipulate a travis configuration file

Target audience: The course is suitable for R users of all levels, but, participants should be familiar with basic git commands.

Assumed Knowledge

Running courses online means we have to be extra careful about participants meeting the pre-requisites. All participants should be familiar with:

  • writing basic R functions
  • basic git with GitHub, e.g push, pull, commit. The initial task will be to
    • Forking a repo
    • Clone the repo onto your machine
  • writing a simple R package

As part of registering for this course, we'll ask for a link to your GitHub repository.

Before the course

  • Please create an account on travis: https://travis-ci.com
  • Make sure you have updated/working versions of R/RStudio; Git/GitHub (optional: GitHub Desktop)
  • Follow instructions at the course GitHub gist