Sorry for a very trivial issue at one edge of R package management: use
of github.
My package (https://github.com/cpsyctc/CECPfuns) is mostly very simple
as I am entirely self-taught as a statistics user and R programmer and
as I am ageing! (I was a fairly good psychiatrist and psychotherapist
and still am a pretty productive researcher I think!)
The package is mostly aimed at people like me who find R amazingly
helpful but who sometimes struggle with the documentation, warnings and
error messages. Hence a lot of it is trivial but is trying to wrap
things up to give end users reasonable help, the odd vignette (not
enough currently) and good input sanity checking and non-geek worded
warnings and errors.
OK enough of the apologies. I have always found git and github in the
"dark arts" side of things but I thought that pushing my commits (from
within a package worked on locally in Rstudio) was working for updating
the package and mostly I thought the evidence was that it was. Clearly
I wasn't checking well enough.
At some point I clearly created a gh-pages branch and I think that was
to get github to create the user friendly html page(s) about the
package. Reading the web now and trying to separate up to date from old
advice from out of date advice I think this is no longer necessary and I
could get the html from the main branch and ditch the gh-pages branch.
However, as the subject line says, I now see that the two branches are
badly out of synch. Github says that main is my default branch and
gh-pages an active branch and at the moment both say they were last
updated six hours ago which was when I last pushed changes up. However,
gh-pages says its behind:ahead count is 100:31 which sounds nasty and I
don't think my use of pkgdown and things in /doc and /docs are updating
correctly.
Having scoured the web for help on this I am rattled and reaching out
for hel. As I say above, I think using gh-pages is no longer necessary
and I would like to synchronise the two branches if that is possible
then delete the gh-pages branch and then get my courage up and try to
get back to understanding how best to document things with github pages
and with pkgdown.
I know this is very small beer against the fascinating things I read
here but I hope someone can look at my mess and point me to safe ways
forward.
Thanks in advance and more generally, thanks for the list which is,
though often way beyond what I need, always educational for me.
Chris
--
Chris Evans (he/him)
Visiting Professor, UDLA, Quito, Ecuador
CORE site: http://www.coresystemtrust.org.uk
<https://www.coresystemtrust.org.uk/>
Other work web site: https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/
Personal site: https://www.psyctc.org/pelerinage2016/
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