Support public and dev docs site

.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml

@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 # update the documentation web site on pushes to `dev` branch.
 on:
   push:
-    branches: [dev]
+    branches: [main, dev]
   pull_request:
-    branches: [dev]
+    branches: [main, dev]
   release:
     types: [published]
   workflow_dispatch:

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: epidatr
 Type: Package
 Title: Client for Delphi's 'Epidata' API
-Version: 1.1.0
+Version: 1.1.0.9000
 Date: 2023-09-11
 Authors@R: 
   c(

DEVELOPMENT.md

@@ -1,19 +1,52 @@
-## Development Environment
-
-Relevant R commands
+## Setting up the development environment
 
 ```r
 install.packages(c('devtools', 'pkgdown', 'styler', 'lintr')) # install dev dependencies
 devtools::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE) # install package dependencies
 devtools::document() # generate package meta data and man files
 devtools::build() # build package
+
+```
+
+## Validating the package
+
+```r
 styler::style_pkg() # format code
-lintr::lint_package() # lint package
+lintr::lint_package() # lint code
+
 devtools::test() # test package
 devtools::check() # check package for errors
 ```
 
-## Release Process
+## Developing the documentation site
+
+The [documentation site](https://cmu-delphi.github.io/epidatr/) is built off of the `main` branch. The `dev` version of the site is available at https://cmu-delphi.github.io/epidatr/dev.
+
+The documentation site can be previewed locally by running in R
+
+```r
+pkgdown::build_site(preview=TRUE)
+```
+
+The `main` version is available at `file:///<local path>/epidatr/docs/index.html` and `dev` at `file:///<local path>/epidatr/docs/dev/index.html`.
+
+You can also build the docs manually and launch the site with python. From the terminal, this looks like
+```bash
+R -e 'devtools::document()'
+python -m http.server -d docs
+```
+
+For `pkgdown` to correctly generate both public (`main`) and `dev` documentation sites, the package version in `DESCRIPTION` on `dev` must have four components, and be of the format `x.x.x.9000`. The package version on `main` must be in the format `x.x.x`.
+
+The documentation website is updated on push or pull request to the `main` and `dev` branches.
+
+## Release process
+
+### Manual
+
+TBD
+
+### Automated (currently unavailable)
 
 The release consists of multiple steps which can be all done via the GitHub website:
 
@@ -25,8 +58,3 @@ The release consists of multiple steps which can be all done via the GitHub webs
    2. create another [Pull Request](https://github.com/cmu-delphi/epidatr/pulls) to merge the changes back to the `dev` branch
    3. create a [GitHub release](https://github.com/cmu-delphi/epidatr/releases) with automatically derived release notes
 5. Release to CRAN
-
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-[mit-url]: https://opensource.org/license/MIT
-[github-actions-image]: https://github.com/cmu-delphi/epidatr/workflows/ci/badge.svg
-[github-actions-url]: https://github.com/cmu-delphi/epidatr/actions

_pkgdown.yml

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ template:
     navbar-bg: '#C41230'
     navbar-fg: '#f8f8f8'
 
+development:
+  mode: auto
+
 navbar:
   bg: '#C41230'
   fg: '#f8f8f8'