Project Management and Version Control with Git in RStudio

Hi everyone,

We hope you all had a restful Easter break and ready to catch up again with the R-world!! We weren't able to schedule an event in April due to the Easter break, so there will be two R-Ladies meet-ups in May. Here are the details of the first one.

This talk will be presented by one our dedicated group organisers, Soroor Zadeh, on 4th of May. Soroor is a Research Assistant in the Division of Bioinformatics at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. She has a background in Statistics and currently works on gene regulation mechanisms in normal and cancer cells.

Title: Project Management and Version Control with Git in R-Studio

Abstract: As a project evolves and more results are produced, a systematic way of keeping records of the changes to the analysis becomes vital. If you are developing a software or working on scripts in your day-to-day tasks, you would have realised that you need a tool that would allow you to keep track of all the changes you make to the project throughout the development process without requiring you to duplicate files and make copies of them. Such a tool would ideally also allow you to revert any recent changes to the script to the old ones or previous versions. This is called Version Control and Git is one such a tool that provides this facility. I will be introducing basic concepts in Version Control and demonstrate how to use Git in your routine analysis.

The second event will be on 22nd of May so add it to your calendar if you are interested in hands-on Twitter Sentimental Analysis!! Details for this event are coming soon!

We are looking forward to seeing you!

Goknur Giner

On behalf of R-Ladies Melbourne