A week of blogdown for RStudio's summer 2019 interns.

Bonus

Good ideas 👍

Alison Hill / 2019-06-13


Here is a collection of “good ideas”, brought on by a Q&A session after we finished our fourth day of “Summer of blogdown”. A mix of advice regarding professional development, good practices, and finding your voice 📣.

License

Add a site LICENSE.md and use CC-BY for the license, and

Citation

Add a site CITATION.md in your project root directory- make sure you include plain text, BibTeX, and your ORCID in CITATION.md, and every librarian on the planet will be your new best friend. – Greg Wilson

- icon: orcid
  icon_pack: ai
  link: https://orcid.org

Commit histories

At this point, you may be worried about other people viewing your commit history. I wouldn’t worry about this too much, but here are some good resources that can help alleviate your anxiety and perhaps help you learn more about using Git/GitHub:

Art by Vicki Drake from https://victoria.dev/

Figure 1: Art by Vicki Drake from https://victoria.dev/

Bling up your Github!

  1. First, add your site’s URL to the top of your repo:

  2. Add a README.md to your repo with a Netlify deployment badge Netlify Status. From Netlify: " All you have to do is copy it from your site’s settings. The badge automatically updates to reflect the current state of your latest production deployment on Netlify. Clicking it takes you to the site’s deploy list if you’re authenticated, and to the login page otherwise."

  3. Add your URL to your GitHub profile: https://github.com/settings/profile.

  4. Add your blogdown project repository to your pinned repos on GitHub: https://help.github.com/en/articles/pinning-items-to-your-profile.

Biography

Want to work more on your bio? I love these slides from my former colleagues at OHSU, Robin Champieux and Letisha Wyatt. Materials are adapted from this blog post.

Some highlights:

On writing

Want to work on your writing? A few good resources: