TidyTuesday At KIKA

Slides and other resources from the #TidyTuesday events at KIKA hacklab in Skopje.

CI

This repository is configured to use Github Actions that builds .Rmd files to a static site, that's then published as gh-pages.

To improve on the velocity of the build, a custom docker image is pre-built that includes all the dependencies needed for the site.

Adding dependencies

R dependencies should be added to the DESCRIPTION file (see the Imports: list). If the dependencies are also available as ubuntu 20.04 packages add them in ubuntu-packages.list too, that will avoid them beeing built from source.

All dependencies will be installed in the docker image, so it can be used for building the site. Running make deps will also install dependencies locally but make sure you have R, devtools and the rest of the system dependencies installed.

Using the Docker image

The gdamjan/tidy-tuesday-kika:latest docker image can be used to build a web site from the source .Rmd files. It includes the needed tools, R and its dependencies, and is automatically rebuilt when the dependencies are changed (see the github actions workflow).

This is helpful if you want to avoid fiddling with R on your own computer.

docker run -it --rm \
    --user $UID \
    --workdir /src \
    --volume $PWD:/src/ \
    gdamjan/tidy-tuesday-kika:latest

# now, first update the dependencies if there are some not present in the image
make deps

# next, compile all Rmds and put the result in `./public`
make DESTDIR=./public dist

PS. almost the same steps are done by the github action which deploys this site to github pages.