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CONTRIBUTING

Source: CONTRIBUTING.md

Fixing typos

Small typos or grammatical errors in documentation may be edited directly using the GitHub web interface, so long as the changes are made in the source file.

  • YES ✔️: you edit a roxygen comment in a .R file below R/.
  • NO ❌: you edit an .Rd file below man/.

Prerequisites

Before you make a substantial pull request, you should always file an issue and make sure someone from the team agrees that it’s a problem. If you’ve found a bug, create an associated issue and illustrate the bug with a minimal reprex.

Pull request process

  • We recommend that you create a Git branch for each pull request (PR).
  • Look at the R-CMD-check build status before. After making changes, run devtools::check() and ensure no new Notes, Warnings or Errors are appearing.
  • We recommend the tidyverse style guide. We also use the styler package to apply these styles, but please don’t restyle code that has nothing to do with your PR.
  • We use roxygen2.
  • We use testthat. Contributions with test cases included are easier to accept.
  • For user-facing changes, add a bullet to the top of NEWS.md below the current development version header describing the changes made followed by your GitHub username, and links to relevant issue(s)/PR(s).

Prefer to Email?

Email the person listed as maintainer in the DESCRIPTION file of this repo.

Though note that private discussions over email don’t help others - of course email is totally warranted if it’s a sensitive problem of any kind.

Thanks for contributing!

This contributing guide is adapted from the tidyverse contributing guide available at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r-lib/usethis/master/inst/templates/tidy-contributing.md