The goal of coursedown is to create a template for course materials.
One folder (slides) comprises of lecture slides written using xaringan and is processed using RMarkdown into a mini-website, where the index.Rmd would be a listing of lectures as well as any meta-data related to lectures.
One folder (notes) comprises course notes (which may be derivative of the slides) built using bookdown into a gitbook-formatted online book
One folder (assignments) can hold homework assignments written in RMarkdown
The top folder creates the class website using RMarkdown, which can link to a Slack space for class collaboration, the GitHub repository for the course materials and various other pages (standard ones are provided for syllabus, instructor bio and other resources)
Building the web pages, presentations and course notes from R Markdown is monitored and controlled by drake.
Installation
The development version can be installed from GitHub with:
Example
This is a basic example which shows you how to create a structured set of folders based on coursedown:
library(coursedown)
create_course(slides = T, notes = T, hw = F)
add_slide('00-Introduction.Rmd')
slide2note('slides/00-Introduction.Rmd', outdir = 'notes')
# This creates basic notes from the corresponding slides. These can now be
# edited before processing
process()This will create the website in the docs folder. Opening docs/index.html will give you access to the full website. You can also deploy this website using GitHub Pages
An example (in fact the first example) of this process can be seen for my BIOF 439 class being taught Spring 2019 at FAES Graduate School @ NIH. Follow the link
