Distribute course materials with usethis::use_course()

[maurolepore]

Have you considered distributing the lesson's materials with usethis::use_course()?

The usethis package recently introduced (in v.1-3-0) the function usethis::use_course(). This may be a good way to distribute the materials of this lesson.

-- From https://www.tidyverse.org/articles/2018/02/usethis-1-3-0/

[fmichonneau]

Yes, I've considered it. Unfortunately, at this time it's not possible to use it to distribute the datasets as the figshare server returns the wrong mime type object on the URL pointing to the zip files which makes use_course() choke. We might revisit this later though once I have a chance to investigate this in more detail.