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Re:Docable: Literate Runbooks and Interactive Tutorials from... by filipsch on Thursday September 24, 2020 @01:48PM (#24581308)
Good stuff! Reminds me of an R package [1] I developed a while ago while at DataCamp that does this specifically for R; it turns static R Markdown documents into interactive playgrounds.

[1] https://github.com/datacamp/tutorial

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Re:Docable: Literate Runbooks and Interactive Tutorials from... by chrisparnin on Thursday September 24, 2020 @01:52PM (#24581359)
Yes, we took a lot of inspiration from when my PhD student interned with RStudio:

You can build some cool stuff with RMarkdown and LearnR:

* https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/

* https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/docs/articles/rmarkdown.html

One interesting distinction is "tutorials" vs. "lessons"... LearnR and datacamp are much better for _lessons_, where you ask a learner to type in some code and check to see if you got it right, with hidden cells with the appropriate test cases backend.

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