This package generates minimal slideshows from a Carpentries Workbench lesson, in order to facilitate teaching workshops.
What is included?
- A title slide for each episode
- A slide for each figure in the lesson
- A slide for each challenge block
- A slide for each discussion point
Installation
From R:
options(repos = c(
carpentries = "https://carpentries.r-universe.dev/",
CRAN = "https://cran.rstudio.com/"
))
remotes::install_github("WEHI-ResearchComputing/CarpentriesSlides")Documentation and Usage
Please visit https://wehi-researchcomputing.github.io/CarpentriesSlides for comprehensive documentation!
FAQ
But I thought Carpentries didn’t allow slides?
The main bulk of Carpentries workshops should still be live coding. However, it is a common and accepted practice that certain parts of a workshop can be presented using slides.
For more discussion on this topic, see:
Why not add this feature to the Carpentries workbench directly?
The Workbench maintenance team didn’t have time to address my proposed feature: https://github.com/carpentries/workbench/issues/78#issuecomment-1947548345. However, I’m very open to merging this into the Workbench when it becomes possible