tutorial_datasets.qmd

# Tutorial: Adding datasets

This part of the `traits.build` book contains a series of tutorials, teaching you for to add datasets to a `traits.build` database. 

Prior to beginning these tutorials, ensure you have: 

1.  Installed the `{traits.build}` R package
```
remotes::install_github("traitecoevo/traits.build")
```
2.  Cloned the traitecoevo/traits.build-template repository.

-  Click on the green `<> Code` tab toward the upper right corner of `https://github.com/traitecoevo/traits.build-template`.

3.  Built the [example database](tutorial_compilation.html).

The tutorial is divided into the following sections:

- [tutorial 1](tutorial_dataset_1.html): Adding a simple dataset.  
- [tutorial 2](tutorial_dataset_2.html): Adding a more complex dataset.  
- [tutorial 3](tutorial_dataset_3.html): Adding contexts and complex units.  
- [tutorial 4](tutorial_dataset_4.html): Additional complexities for adding datasets.  
- [tutorial 5](tutorial_dataset_5.html): Adding datasets with multiple columns for a trait.  
- [tutorial 6](tutorial_dataset_6.html): Adding datasets with repeat measurements (response curves).  
- [tutorial 7](tutorial_dataset_7.html): Adding a long format dataset and mapping in units from a column.  

Once you've worked your way through the tutorials and begin adding your own datasets, you'll also want to refer to:

-   lengthy guide to [adding datasets](adding_data_long.html)  
-   guide to [common issues when adding data](data_common_issues.html).  

If you are building a `{traits.build}` compiled trait database and have specific problems that should be covered in additional tutorials or require better explanations, please post an [issue](https://github.com/traitecoevo/traits.build-book/issues/new).