2023 CANSSI workshop hit us hard with a huge time debt associated with setup. There were a few causes of this but a big recurring headache was that very few people seemed to have run the setup instructions before arriving. Since we can't enforce pre-workshop setup, we need to make running setup fast and easy, both to make it not daunting for students with limited R experience, and also to make it quick and easy for us to run for people in the pre-workshop phase. I have a few thoughts about how we can do this:
We should also encourage users to bring us their errors if they run the script and it doesn't work.
2023 CANSSI workshop hit us hard with a huge time debt associated with setup. There were a few causes of this but a big recurring headache was that very few people seemed to have run the setup instructions before arriving. Since we can't enforce pre-workshop setup, we need to make running setup fast and easy, both to make it not daunting for students with limited R experience, and also to make it quick and easy for us to run for people in the pre-workshop phase. I have a few thoughts about how we can do this:
We should also encourage users to bring us their errors if they run the script and it doesn't work.