If you want to contribute to a project and make it better, your help is very welcome.
For small, simple changes such as fixing typos you can edit any file directly from GitHub by clicking the Edit button after opening it. For more complicated changes, you will have to manually create a pull request (PR) after forking this repository. See the next section for more information.
If you submit a non-trivial pull request (e.g. not just fixing a typo), you may add your name to the Authors@R field as a contributor (ctb) in the R package DESCRIPTION file if you wish.
Pull Request Workflow
- Create a personal fork of the project on Github, and clone the fork on your local machine;
- Create a new branch to work on;
- Implement/fix your feature, comment your code;
- Follow the code style of the project, including indentation;
- Run tests using devtools:
devtools::test(); - Write or adapt tests as needed;
- Add or change the documentation as needed. Please do not run
roxygen2, and do not include changes in.Rdfiles in your pull request - I will re-roxygenise the documentation myself; - Push your branch to your fork on Github;
- From your fork open a pull request in the correct branch.
This step-by-step workflow has been adapted from https://github.com/MarcDiethelm/contributing.
Working on your first Pull Request? You can learn more from this free series How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub.