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R-Ladies Ottawa

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Ottawa, ON, CA

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What we’re about

R-Ladies Ottawa welcomes members of all R proficiency levels, whether you're a new or aspiring R user, or an experienced R programmer interested in mentoring, networking & expert upskilling. Our community is designed to develop our members' R skills & knowledge through social, collaborative learning & sharing. Supporting minority identity access to STEM skills & careers, the Free Software Movement, and contributing to the global R community!

A local chapter of R-Ladies Global, R-Ladies Ottawa exists to promote gender diversity in the R community worldwide. We are pro-actively inclusive of queer, trans, and all minority identities, with additional sensitivity to intersectional identities. Our priority is to provide a safe community space for anyone identifying as a minority gender who is interested in and/or working with R. As a founding principle, there is no cost or charge to participate in any of our R-Ladies communities around the world.

We are part of Global R-Ladies group. You can access our presentations, R scripts, and Projects on our Github account and follow us on twitter to stay up to date about R-Ladies news!

Website: https://www.rladies.org
Twitter: @RLadiesGlobal ( https://twitter.com/RLadiesGlobal )
Github: https://github.com/rladies

PS Community Policies & Code of Conduct: The leadership, mentoring & teaching roles within this Community are held exclusively by minority genders (majority gender speakers may be allowed/invited as one-off guests in exceptional circumstances at the leadership team's discretion). Due to unexpected demand, we have opened learning participation to all genders, dependent on initial and on-going vetting by the leadership team. However, the stated priority of the R-Ladies communities is the development & support specifically of those identifying as a minority gender, and we, therefore, reserve the right to guard this interest through whatever measures the leadership team deems appropriate. Anyone involved with R-Ladies Ottawa is expected to fully respect each other, the mandate of this community, and the goodwill on which R-Ladies is founded, or face expulsion/a penalty of any form, at the discretion of the leadership team.

Full community guidelines are found here: https://github.com/rladies/starter-kit/wiki

PPS Photos, Films and all other media/recordings: Photos, Films, and all other media/recordings: photographs and/or video/other media will be taken at events held by this community. By taking part in an R-Ladies Ottawa event you grant the community organizers full rights to use the images resulting from the photography/video filming/media, and any reproductions or adaptations of the images for publicity, fundraising or other purposes to help achieve the community’s aims. This might include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in their printed and online publicity, social media, press releases and funding applications. If you do not wish to be recorded in these media please inform a community organizer.

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Tue, Oct 28 · 6:00 PM EDT
R package development with GitHub Pages and pkgdown
Bayview Yards, 7 Bayview Road, Ottawa, ON, CA
Creating clear, professional documentation is key to making your R package useful to other people, but building a documentation website can be tricky. The `pkgdown` package makes this process much easier, but deploying via GitHub Pages can present its own set of challenges.

In this workshop, we’ll build a simple R package together, and use GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages to create a `pkgdown` documentation website for the package. By the end of this workshop, you’ll have:
- 🌎 A toy R package available on GitHub for others to install
- 📄 A `pkgdown` website for your package, deployed via GitHub Pages
Before the workshop participants should:
- Create a GitHub account. Note that prior experience with package development and/or GitHub is not required.
- Download and install R, Positron, and Git on their personal PCs.
- If you have trouble with the above we are able to provide access to the Posit Cloud environment as a backup.
At the workshop participants should:
- Bring your own PC.
- Be willing to learn and contribute to a safe and welcoming environment.
This is an in-person event with limited space! Please only RSVP if you are able to attend in-person!

***Please note that the mission of R-Ladies is to increase gender diversity in the R community. This event is intended to provide a safe space for women and gender minorities. We ask for male allies to be invited by and accompanied by a woman or gender minority.***
12 attendees