The Conservation Paleobiology Network (CPN) aims to transform conservation paleobiology into an applied science that informs conservation and restoration efforts. The project is envisioned as a grass-roots effort to develop strategies for communicating geohistorical data to stakeholder groups. To facilitate interdisciplinary conservation work, the CPN now offers tutorials. These will cover various topics starting at an introductory level and aim to show students and scientists how to process geohistorical data. This document shows how to use the cpnr package and how to start a tutorial. We have additionally set up a guide to the cpnr package on github. Please view our antiracism statement and call for action before proceeding.
The training-series group of the CPN will add new tutorials to the package
from time to time. To see all interactive tutorials currently available, you
can use the show_tutorials function:
show_tutorials()
If the short description returned from show_tutorials is not sufficient for
you to see what the tutorial contains, you can access a more detailed
description via show_description. We need the tutorial
name as an argument for the function:
show_description(tutorial = "divdyn")
Each tutorial relies on various packages that might not be installed on your
device. Running the tutorial without these packages will fail. It is
therefore necessary to check which packages are needed to run the tutorial
via show_dependencies:
show_dependencies(tutorial = "divdyn")
To load all dependencies that are needed to run a tutorial, and to install
the missing ones, you can run load_dependencies:
packages <- show_dependencies(tutorial = "divdyn")
load_dependencies(packages = packages)
Once you know the name of the desired tutorial and loaded all dependencies,
you are ready to run it. The start_tutorial function will initiate the
interactive tutorial and open it in a browser:
start_tutorial(tutorial = "divdyn")
To stop a tutorial, simply close the browser window and return to Rstudio. Here you can either press 'escape' or press the red stop button in the console window to end the tutorial.
Gregor Mathes (gregor.mathes@uni-bayreuth.de)