building-accessible-lessons-r-friends.md

talk_id	talk_slug	talk_type	talk_tags	session_slug	talk_title	talk_title_short	talk_materials_url	speakers
22120	building-accessible-lessons-r-friends	regular	access communication community teaching tool	communities-of-practice	Building Accessible Lessons with R and Friends	Building Accessible Lessons with R and Friends	https://github.com/zkamvar/rstudio-conf-2022	name affiliation url username photo bio Zhian N. Kamvar The Carpentries webpage twitter github linkedin affiliation https://zkamvar.netlify.app https://twitter.com/zkamvar https://github.com/zkamvar https://linkedin.com/in/zkamvar https://carpentries.org zhiann.kamvar /assets/img/2022Conf/_talks/22120_zhian-n-kamvar.png Zhian is the Lesson Infrastructure Technology Developer for [The Carpentries](https://carpentries.org), brining data science skills to researchers worldwide. He has been publishing R packages since 2013 and is a recovering bioinformatician located in Beaverton, Oregon, USA. Outside of R, he enjoys bicycle rides, speculative fiction, cats, the musical stylings of [The Screaming Females](https://screamingfemales.bandcamp.com/), platelet donation, and baking.

The Carpentries is a global community of volunteers who collaboratively develop and deliver lessons to build capacity in data and coding skills to researchers worldwide. In the recent redesign of our lesson infrastructure (serving >100 lessons, used daily by >5K learners), we replaced embedded Jekyll templates with a workbench of modular and accessible packages using R and Pandoc. By leveraging renv and knitr for R-based lessons, we provide a seamless and collaborative lesson development experience that maximizes reproducibility and minimizes frustration so authors can focus on the contents, not the tooling. We demonstrate how anyone can use our infrastructure to build customised and accessible sites for their own lessons or tutorials.