Welcome!

Welcome to the Git and GitHub for R users workshop! The course website can be found at nrennie.github.io/training-git-r, where you will also find a copy of the slides.

Contents

  • Understand why version control is necessary and useful.
  • Be able to collaborate on code using Git and GitHub from RStudio.
  • Edit code, track changes, and review code using GitHub.

Target audience

  • You’re (reasonably) comfortable writing R code to do some analysis but…
    • Your scripts are getting longer and longer
    • There are R scripts everywhere
    • You don’t want other people to see the code you’ve written because it’s all a bit of a mess!
  • You don’t have any experience of Git or GitHub but you’d like to get started.

Prerequisites

  • Basic knowledge of R (including know what R projects are) and RStudio.
Further training

View other available training courses and workshops at nrennie.rbind.io/projects/training-workshops.