add acknow, cover image, and license in index #71
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SaranjeetKaur
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some work needed for the cover image |
| documentclass: book | ||
| bibliography: [book.bib] | ||
| biblio-style: apalike | ||
| link-citations: yes | ||
| github-repo: forwards/rdevguide | ||
| url: 'TDDO' | ||
| cover-image: "img/Rlogo.png" |
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I think you need to create an image of a book cover using the R logo as the main image. See for example the images on https://bookdown.org/ - they are the cover image of the hard copy book. We don't have a hard copy book of course, but you could create a cover page as a PDF to use as an image (e.g. with PDF export from Word or some other program) . Actually the image for "R Programming for Data Science" looks like a self-made example. So you just need the title, the image and R Contribution Working Group as the author.
Consider how it will look on Twitter, e.g. https://twitter.com/straightedge/status/1203515396910772230?s=20&t=3ApdM_TKev1KPzMP3IW7WA - either make the whole image square or center the image vertically on a larger page so that only the R logo shows on the Twitter image.
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You need to also consider how to add the cover image to the PDF and EPUB. There is some guidance on PDF here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43057244/173755. It may be easiest to do this first, then split the first page off the compiled PDF to use as cover-image in the YAML for the HTML and EPUB versions.
Note that eventually we want to replace the index with more helpful content for people visiting the guide for the first time. I'm not sure yet if that will be your new Getting Started/Introduction page, or a much shorter version. I'm also not sure if the Acknowledgements should be at the end of this, or elsewhere in the book. It would be good to look at what other people have done to get an idea of good practice. Maybe something like https://www.tidytextmining.com/ with a short welcome explaining what the guide is about and a separate preface ending in acknowledgements? Probably call it something other than Preface though as people may think they can skip it. Getting Started is still good for that part I think.
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Some of the comments have been addressed and the remaining ones have been referenced in new open issues. Merging this PR for now. |
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