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title: Setup
---
Our lesson template is kept in the [`carpentries/styles` repository][styles]. The `styles` repository is carefully curated so that
changes made to it are easily mergable by downstream lessons. The `styles` repository contains various
bits that take Markdown files and render them as a lesson web page. For more information on how to develop
lessons and maintain them, see our [lesson-example][lesson-example]. It will walk you through the basics of lesson
design and how to use GitHub, Markdown and Jekyll for lesson development. Follow the instructions below to make
your own empty lesson in your own GitHub account. Once you've done that you can just write Markdown code and have
lesson web pages just like the [lesson-example][lesson-example] and all of our other lessons, but with your lesson content.
Requirements:
Our lesson template is kept in the [`carpentries/styles` repository][styles]. The `styles`
repository is carefully curated so that changes made to it are easily mergable by downstream
lessons. The `styles` repository contains various bits that take Markdown files and render them as a
lesson web page. For more information on how to develop lessons and maintain them, see our
[lesson-example][lesson-example]. It will walk you through the basics of lesson design and how to
use GitHub, Markdown and Jekyll for lesson development. Follow the instructions below to make your
own empty lesson in your own GitHub account. Once you've done that you can just write Markdown code
and have lesson web pages just like the [lesson-example][lesson-example] and all of our other
lessons, but with your lesson content.
## Requirements
* A GitHub account
* A working Python 3.4+ environment to run the lesson initialization script
* (Optional) A local install of [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/) (version 3.2 or higher) which will require the Ruby language to be installed.
* A working [Python 3.4+](https://www.python.org) environment to run the lesson initialization
script
* (Optional) A local install of [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/) (version 3.2 or higher) which will
require the Ruby language to be installed.
## Creating a New Lesson
We will assume that your user ID is `timtomch` and the name of your
new lesson is `data-cleanup`.
1. We'll use the [GitHub's importer][importer] to make a copy of this repo in your own GitHub account.
(Note: This is like a GitHub Fork, but not connected to the upstream changes)
1. We'll use the [GitHub's importer][importer] to make a copy of this repo in your own GitHub
account. (Note: This is like a GitHub Fork, but not connected to the upstream changes)
2. **Put the URL of [the styles repository][styles]** (https://github.com/carpentries/styles) in the "Your
old repository’s clone URL" box.
Do *not* use the URL of this repository,
2. Put the URL of **[the styles repository][styles]**, that is
**https://github.com/carpentries/styles** in the "Your old repository’s clone URL" box.
Do not use the URL of this repository,
as that will bring in a lot of example files you don't actually want.
3. Select the owner for your new repository.
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(Note that the user name above is `carpentries`, *not* `timtomch`,
since you are adding the master copy of the template as a remote.)
10. Configure the `template` remote to not download tags:
~~~
$ git config --local remote.template.tagOpt --no-tags
~~~
{: .language-bash}
10. Make sure you are using the `gh-pages` branch of the lesson template:
~~~
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that cannot be put into the styles repository
(because they would trigger repeated merge conflicts).
12. Create and edit files as explained further in [the episodes of this lesson]({{ page.root }}/#schedule).
12. Create and edit files as explained further in
[the episodes of this lesson]({{ relative_root_path }}/#schedule).
13. (requires Jekyll Setup from below) Preview the HTML pages for your lesson:
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~~~
{: .language-bash}
14. Commit your changes *and the HTML pages in the root directory of
your lesson repository* and push to the `gh-pages` branch of your
Alternatively, you can try using Docker:
~~~
$ make docker-serve
~~~
{: .language-bash}
14. Commit your changes and push to the `gh-pages` branch of your
repository:
~~~
$ cd data-cleanup
$ git add changed-file.md changed-file.html
$ git add changed-file.md
$ git commit -m "Explanatory message"
$ git push origin gh-pages
~~~
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15. [Tell us][email] where your lesson is so that we can add it to
the appropriate index page(s).
**Note:**
## Notes
1. SSH cloning (rather than the HTTPS cloning used above)
will also work for those who have set up SSH keys with GitHub.
2. Once a lesson has been created, please submit changes
for review as pull requests that contain *only the modified Markdown files*.
Do *not* submit generated HTML.
for review as pull requests that contain Markdown files only.
3. Some people have had intermittent errors during the import process,
possibly because of the network timing out.
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## (Optional) Jekyll Setup for Lesson Development
If you want to set up Jekyll
so that you can preview changes on your own machine before pushing them to GitHub,
If you want to preview changes on your own machine before pushing them to GitHub,
you must install the software described below.
(Note: Julian Thilo has written instructions for
[installing Jekyll on Windows][jekyll-windows].)
Julian Thilo wrote instructions for [installing Jekyll on Windows][jekyll-windows].
1. **[Ruby](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/)**.
1. **Ruby**.
This is included with Linux and macOS;
the simplest option on Windows is to use [RubyInstaller][ruby-installer].
Make sure Ruby is upto date otherwise jekyll may fail.
You can test your installation by running `ruby --version`.
For more information,
see [the Ruby installation guidelines][ruby-install-guide].
**Linux/macOS**: Ruby is usually included with Linux and macOS. However, to reliably render
lessons the way GitHub does, we have to use the same version of Ruby as GitHub. Currently,
GitHub uses Ruby 2.5.3. In order to install Ruby 2.5.3 on Linux and macOS, we recommend using
[rbenv](https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv):
~~~
rbenv install 2.5.3
~~~
{: .language-bash}
And then instructing `rbenv` to use it in your lesson development process by executing the
following command from your lesson directory:
~~~
rbenv local 2.5.3
~~~
{: .language-bash}
To install `rbenv`, please use [rbenv-installer](https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv-installer).
**Windows**: Please use [RubyInstaller][ruby-installer] to install Ruby on Windows.
Upon installing Ruby, check its version by executing
~~~
ruby --version
~~~
{: .language-bash}
For more information, see [the Ruby installation guidelines][ruby-install-guide].
2. **[RubyGems][rubygems]**
(the package manager for Ruby).
You can test your installation by running `gem --version`.
is a tool which manages Ruby packages. It should be installed along with Ruby and you can
test your installation by running
~~~
gem --version
~~~
{: .language-bash}
3. **[Jekyll][jekyll]**.
You can install this by running `gem install jekyll`.
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so you will need to install these to build R lessons
(and this example lesson). The best way to install these packages is to open an R terminal and type:
```
> install.packages('knitr', repos = 'https://', dependencies = TRUE)
> install.packages('stringr', repos = 'https://cran.rstudio.com', dependencies = TRUE)
> install.packages('checkpoint', repos = 'https://cran.rstudio.com', dependencies = TRUE)
> install.packages('ggplot2', repos = 'https://cran.rstudio.com', dependencies = TRUE)
```
~~~
install.packages(c('knitr', 'stringr', 'checkpoint', 'ggplot2'),
repos = 'https://cran.rstudio.com', dependencies = TRUE)
~~~
{: .language-r}
If you want to run `bin/lesson_check.py` (which is invoked by `make lesson-check`)
you will need Jekyll (so that you have its Markdown parser, which is called Kramdown)
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