Week 9: Version control with Git and GitHub

Reading

• Jenny Bryan, “Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about version control?,” PeerJ Preprints (2017) https://peerj.com/preprints/3159v2.
• Jenny Bryan, Happy Git and GitHub for the useR, Chapter 1: Why Git? Why GitHub?
• Lowndes et al., “Our path to better science in less time using open data science tools,” Nature: Ecology & Evolution 1 no. 6, (2017), http://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0160.
• Allison Horst and Julie Lowndes, GitHub for supporting, reusing, contributing, and failing safely.

Assignment

• Make sure that you have Git downloaded on your computer.
• Set up Git to work with RStudio.
• Set up and account at GitHub.
• Take some time to go back over working on the command line.

Activities

• Workshop: Git and GitHub
• Workshop: Git and RStudio

Resources

Git

• See Computing: Git
• Library Carpentry - Introduction to Git
• Software Carpentry - Version Control with Git
• Chacon, Pro Git
• GitHub docs
• Git Command Line cheatsheet

RStudio and Git

• Jenny Bryan, Happy Git and GitHub for the useR.
• usethis: Managing Git(Hub) Credentials.
• Julie Lowndes and Allison Horst, R for Excel Users: GitHub.
• Maëlle Salmon, git and GitHub in R for the casual user.
• Garrick Aden-Buie, Pull Request Flow with usethis.