Name: Git and GitHub for R Users
Start: 2025-04-23T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-23T13:00:00-05:00

In this workshop, attendees will learn how to use GitHub in conjunction with RStudio.

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.

Zoom link will be provided closer to the event.

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Statistical Computing

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Nicola Rennie is a data visualisation specialist with a background in statistics and data science. She is currently a Lecturer in Health Data Science based within the [Centre for Health Informatics, Computing, and Statistics](https://chicas.lancaster-university.uk/) at Lancaster Medical School. She’s interested in understanding how to effectively communicate complex quantitative ideas in an accessible way, as well as how to do so using open source tools. Nicola is a committee member and secretary of the [Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Teaching Statistics Section Group](https://rss.org.uk/membership/rss-groups-and-committees/sections/teaching-statistics/), and is also one of the [RSS’s 2024-2025 William Guy Lecturers](https://rss.org.uk/policy-campaigns/policy-groups/education-policy-advisory-group/rss-william-guy-lecturers/william-guy-lecturers-2024-25/) who has recorded and delivered talks aimed at 11-16 year olds on the topic of using data and statistics to shape decision making in medicine and healthcare.

She co-authored the Royal Statistical Society’s [Best Practices for Data Visualisation](https://rss.org.uk/datavisguide/) guidance and is a member of the Editorial Board of [Significance](https://significancemagazine.com/about/) magazine, particularly focused on data visualisation. Nicola has also previously held roles in the [RoSE (Researchers of Statistics Education) Network](https://www.rose-network.org/about-us/meet-the-team/sig_leads), co-leading the Statistics Software Special Interest Group, and as part of the Communications team. She can often be found at data science meetups, presenting at conferences, and is the [R-Ladies Lancaster](https://www.meetup.com/rladies-lancaster/) chapter organiser. She’s also previously been a committee member of the [R-Ladies Global Team](https://rladies.org/about-us/global-team/).

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