CONTRIBUTING.md

How to contribute

Report an issue

Reporting a bug with our code is one way that you can help improve it. If you choose to report an issue, please follow these steps:

1. Give your issue a descriptive title (e.g. not "code doesn't work")
2. Describe the exact steps that reproduce the bug, with no extraneous steps
3. If a specific bunch of code you wrote causes a bug, submit the code
4. If you are getting an error message, submit the error message
5. Include version numbers for your OS, R, and IDE

Submit a patch

Submitting new materials, data, examples, and/or code is a great way to help improve teaching materials. If you choose to submit materials to this repository, please follow these steps:

1. Fork this repository
2. Make focused, directed, and clean changes to your fork
3. Run R --quiet -f scripts/regenerate_files.R from the base directory
4. Commit your changes to your fork
   • Make sure your commit is thematically focused
   • Small commits are better than large commits
   • Use informative commit messages
   • If your commit fixes an issue, include closes #<> in your commit message
5. Push your commit to your fork
6. Create a pull request
   • Give your pull request a descriptive title (e.g. not "changes")
   • Explain the motivation for your changes
   • Explain what you have changed

And thanks!