Getting Started

Example

This is a basic example of setting up an rOpenSci package review project:

1. create review project

Create the review project, using pkgreview_create. The function takes arguments:

library(pkgreviewr)
pkgreview_create(pkg_repo = "ropensci/rdflib", 
                 review_parent = "~/Documents/workflows/rOpenSci/reviews/")

The function creates a new review project in the review_parent directory following project naming convention {pkgname}-review and populates the review templates to create all required documents.

review files

The review project directory will contain all the files you’ll need to complete the review and will be initialised with git.

rdflib-review
├── README.md
├── index.Rmd
├── pkgreview.md
└── rdflib-review.Rproj

index.Rmd

The most important file it creates is the index.Rmd html_notebook file. This workbook is prepopulated with all the major steps required to complete the review in an interactive document to perform and record it in. It also extracts useful links, information and parameter values.

See example here.

Once rendered to index.nb.html (*.nb.html is the notebook file format), this report can be pushed to GitHub for publication.

pkgreview.md

Template response form to submit to the package rOpenSci onboarding review issue.

See template here.

README.md

Prepopulated README for the review repo that will present the repo to people navigating to it.

See example here:.

clone of package source code

To enable local testing of the package, review creation also clones the review package source code into review_parent from the github repository defned in pkg_repo . This also makes it available for local review and perhaps even a pull request. Correcting typos in documentation can be a great review contribution, but first you might want to check the contributing guidelines or ask the author if they are open to such pull requests.

The resulting files from a successful review project will look like this:

reviews
├── rdflib
│   ├── DESCRIPTION
│   ├── LICENSE
│   ├── NAMESPACE
│   ├── NEWS.md
│   ├── R
│   │   └── rdf.R
│   ├── README.Rmd
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── appveyor.yml
│   ├── codecov.yml
│   ├── codemeta.json
│   ├── docs
│   │   ├── LICENSE.html
│   │   ├── articles
│   │   │   ├── index.html
│   │   │   ├── rdflib.html
│   │   │   └── rdflib_files
│   │   │       ├── datatables-binding-0.2
│   │   │       │   └── datatables.js
│   │   │       ├── dt-core-1.10.12
│   │   │       │   ├── css
│   │   │       │   │   ├── jquery.dataTables.extra.css
│   │   │       │   │   └── jquery.dataTables.min.css
│   │   │       │   └── js
│   │   │       │       └── jquery.dataTables.min.js
│   │   │       ├── htmlwidgets-0.9
│   │   │       │   └── htmlwidgets.js
│   │   │       └── jquery-1.12.4
│   │   │           ├── LICENSE.txt
│   │   │           └── jquery.min.js
│   │   ├── authors.html
│   │   ├── index.html
│   │   ├── jquery.sticky-kit.min.js
│   │   ├── link.svg
│   │   ├── news
│   │   │   └── index.html
│   │   ├── pkgdown.css
│   │   ├── pkgdown.js
│   │   └── reference
│   │       ├── index.html
│   │       ├── rdf.html
│   │       ├── rdf_add.html
│   │       ├── rdf_parse.html
│   │       ├── rdf_query.html
│   │       ├── rdf_serialize.html
│   │       └── rdflib-package.html
│   ├── inst
│   │   ├── examples
│   │   │   └── rdf_table.R
│   │   └── extdata
│   │       ├── ex.xml
│   │       └── vita.json
│   ├── man
│   │   ├── rdf.Rd
│   │   ├── rdf_add.Rd
│   │   ├── rdf_parse.Rd
│   │   ├── rdf_query.Rd
│   │   ├── rdf_serialize.Rd
│   │   └── rdflib-package.Rd
│   ├── paper.bib
│   ├── paper.md
│   ├── rdflib.Rproj
│   ├── tests
│   │   ├── testthat
│   │   │   └── test-rdf.R
│   │   └── testthat.R
│   └── vignettes
│       └── rdflib.Rmd
└── rdflib-review
    ├── README.md
    ├── index.Rmd
    └── rdflib-review.Rproj


2. Perform your review:

Use the index.Rmd notebook to work through the review interactively. The document is designed to guide the process in a logical fashion and bring your attention to relevant aspects and information at different stages of the review. You can make notes and record comments within index.Rmd or directly in the review submission form.


3. Submit your review:

Currently the workflow is just set up for you to just copy your response from your completed pkgreview.md and paste it into the review issue but we’re exploring programmatic submission also. Because the response is currently submitted as .md, package reprex might be useful for inserting reproducible demos of any issues encountered.


4. Publish your report by pushing to GitHub *

Optional. Have a look at the Publish pkgreview on GitHub vignette.