OTTR: Open-source Tools for Training Resources

Why OTTR?

OTTR makes publishing and maintaining courses on multiple platforms less painful!

OTTR provides tools for customized spell check, checks for broken urls, checks for formmating, and tools to convert and render files to be compatible across publishing platforms to allow you to publish on bookdown, Leanpub, and coursera more easily

Write 1 time ➡️ publish 3 times!

Edit and write a course in R Markdown files and have it published to multiple different platforms:
Use automagic conversion to ease the lift of prepping the material for different platforms.

Simplify publishing steps:

Have Github action robots do your repetitive tasks like spell check and re-rendering.
If you plan to include code, use our Docker image for consistency across authors as well as to help you avoid dependency hell.

Customize for your own needs:

Follow our guides to customize the style of your course to show your own branding.
Customize your own Docker image for your particular needs.

Want to try OTTR?

Click Getting Started!

How to Cite OTTR

OTTR was created by members of the Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab and Carnegie Institution.

See the OTTR pre-print here!📝👀

Here’s the BibTeX formatted citation for the pre-print:

@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2203.07083,
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2203.07083},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07083},
  author = {Savonen, Candace and Wright, Carrie and Hoffman, Ava M. and Muschelli, John and Cox, Katherine and Tan, Frederick J. and Leek, Jeffrey T.},
  keywords = {Computers and Society (cs.CY), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences},
  title = {Open-source Tools for Training Resources -- OTTR},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  year = {2022},
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
}