36 Create a bingo card

Here’s a specific suggestion for practicing “fork and pull”.

The general workflow is laid out in chapter 31.

Jenny and Dean have a repository that makes bingo cards with R:

• https://github.com/jennybc/bingo
• Read the README to learn more about it!

Your mission:

• Maybe find a partner? Or a couple of partners?
• Fork the bingo repo.
• Clone it to someone’s local machine.
• Create a new bingo card by making a file of possible squares.
  • Follow the instructions in https://github.com/jennybc/bingo/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md to see how to contribute a new card.
  • Protip: It’s easy to be very funny, but create a very difficult bingo card. Remember to include some easy stuff so people have a chance to bingo.
• If you’re feeling virtuous, run the tests and check the package. Ask us for help! Or live dangerously and skip this.
• Commit!
• Push your changes back to your copy of the repo on GitHub.
• Make a pull request back to the main bingo repo.
• If your card is appropriate, we’ll merge your request and it will become part of the package and available via the Shiny app.

Special inspiration for useR:

• Make useR-specific conference bingo.
• See this issue thread for lots of square ideas!
  • https://github.com/jennybc/bingo/issues/4