Keeping up-to-date with the Workbench

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Hello friends,

For the beta testers, I want to thank you all so much for volunteering to participate in this phase and I wanted to make sure I touched base with all of you to make sure you know how you can stay up to date with the progress of the Workbench and the workbench beta.

If you haven't yet done so, I would encourage you to say hello in the welcome thread and share your experiences with The Workbench!

Staying Updated on The Workbench

I will be summarising updates to The Workbench components and the lessons in the Beta Phase in the semi-weekly blog post series called The Dovetail.

Frequency of updates to the infrastructure

Because The Workbench is in a growth phase, each component will be updated as is needed through a specific release process that ensures packages are available on The Carpentries R-Universe. This means that there may be several updates in a single week, or there may be none, thus it's a good idea to keep your local infrastructure up-to-date with the following commands in R:

# Enable repository from carpentries
options(repos = c(
  ropensci = 'https://carpentries.r-universe.dev',
  getOption('repos')
))
# Download and install sandpaper in R
install.packages(c('tinkr', 'pegboard', 'sandpaper', 'varnish'))

Lessons in different stages of the Workbench Beta

I will be continuously updating the list of lessons in beta at #11. This is a resource for folks to see what lessons are transitioning and how that will affect the curricula.

Interacting with the community

The best place to ask and answer questions related to the workbench is right here in this discussions forum. It could be feedback on the lesson infrastructure or a tip and trick that you've found that helps you work better.