This tutorial covers how to make your code available to others. It wraps up a series of tutorials which we recommend to go through in advance: Introduction to version control with git and GitHub within RStudio: This tutorial explains how to set up a simple project with version control. Collaborative coding with GitHub and RStudio: Here you can learn how to collaborate with others on code projects using GitHub. Introduction to R: This is an introduction to the R programming language. Introduction to {renv}: Here you can learn how to manage the dependencies of an R project. Introduction to Quarto: Learn how to combine prose and code to make documents more reproducible. Introduction to Zotero: Get introduced to the reference management software Zotero. FAIR research data management: Learn how to make your data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. While the general principles taught in this tutorial apply to most researchers publishing code, we will focus on the programming language R and the publishing system Quarto. To follow the tutorial you need to have installed Git, R, and Quarto. Windows users may additionally need RTools. Some things will be explained using the RStudio IDE, but you are free to use any IDE you like.

You can view a current version of the tutorial online at https://lmu-osc.github.io/code-publishing/